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Comparison between the reported macroseismic intensities and the estimated intensities obtained using Shakemap represented using the same color palette.. Left: preliminary macroseismic map compiled by the field macroseismic teams (from "Rapporto sugli effetti macrosismici del terremoto del 24 Agosto 2016 di Amatrice in scala MCS" a cura di P. Galli e E. Peronace, Coordinamento del rilievo macrosismico MCS a cura di P. Galli e A. Tertulliani, 2016). Right: MCS intensity values obtained with the final shakemap updated with the manually revised data.

Comparison between the reported macroseismic intensities and the estimated intensities obtained using Shakemap represented using the same color palette.. Left: preliminary macroseismic map compiled by the field macroseismic teams (from "Rapporto sugli effetti macrosismici del terremoto del 24 Agosto 2016 di Amatrice in scala MCS" a cura di P. Galli e E. Peronace, Coordinamento del rilievo macrosismico MCS a cura di P. Galli e A. Tertulliani, 2016). Right: MCS intensity values obtained with the final shakemap updated with the manually revised data.

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In this paper we describe the performance of the ShakeMap software package (Wald et al., 1999; Worden and Wald, 2016) obtained from the fully automatic procedure to estimate ground motions, based on manually revised location and magnitude, during the main event of the Amatrice sequence with special emphasis to the M6 main shock, that struck central...

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... the intensity scale in our maps adopts the relations obtained from the regression between PGM parameters and the MCS intensity values of Michelini (2010, 2011), we have com- pared the final shakemaps with the preliminary macroseismic maps available at the time of writ- ing this work. In figure 5 we show the two maps represented using the same color scale. We note that the MCS intensity shakemap although much blurred since it relies on essentially three main data points in the near fault region (AMT, NRC, and RQT) can nevertheless provide a very first information on the ground shaking in the near fault region. ...

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