Dante Mariotti

• Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

Knowing the location, the extent and the characteristics of any earthquake-induced environmental phenomenon is becoming an increasingly pressing need for civil protection agencies and local administrations. In particular, earthquake-triggered landslides are known for being among the most important sources of secondary hazard, as they may cause sign...

All'inizio del 2018 è stata pubblicata una nuova versione del Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in Italia e nell'area mediterranea, denominata CFTI5Med (Guidoboni et al., 2018). La nuova versione giunge a 11 anni dalla precedente versione (Guidoboni et al., 2007) e ad oltre vent'anni dalla prima uscita (Boschi et al., 1995). Il CFTI, che è basato su una...

A key element for assessing seismic hazard and risk is the availability of a comprehensive dataset on past earthquakes. Here we present the rationale, structure and contents of CFTI5Med ( https://doi.org/10.6092/ingv.it-cfti5 ), the 2018 version of the Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy: a large multidisciplinary effort including historians,...

The Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in ltalia (Catalogue of Strong Italian Earthquakes) is the most important outcome of a well-established collaboration between the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING; since 2000 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV), the leading Italian institution for basic and applied research in seismology and so...

Una delle principali attività svolte tra il 2016 e il 2017 nell’ambito delll'Allegato B2 dell’Accordo-Quadro DPC-INGV 2012-2021 ha riguardato il grande patrimonio informativo sugli effetti ambientali sismo-indotti presente nella banca-dati del Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in Italia (CFTI). Questi dati sono solo in minima parte accessibili nella sua...

This new Catalogue (in Italian) of the volcano’s Etna historical eruptions, published in July 2014, presents the results of a historical research on written, iconographical and epigraphical sources over a period more than 2000 years. The long research work on these historical materials was supported by a parallel study of the social and the cultura...

This historical seismology study examines and supplements what is currently known from written sources and archaeological literature about the earthquakes that took place in the area of L'Aquila (central Italy), struck by a damaging earthquake on 6 April 2009 (M-w 6.3), from the ancient Roman period to the late Middle Ages (first through fifteenth...

The particular structure of the research into historical seismology found in this catalogue has allowed a lot of information about unknown seismic events to be traced. This new contribution to seismologic knowledge mainly consists in: i) the retrieval and organisation within a coherent framework of documentary evidence of earthquakes that took plac...

Annals of Geophysics, 43, 4, 609-868 (with database on CD-ROM)

The Italian earthquake catalogue is considered to be fairly complete starting from the 17th century and for classes of earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5.5. However, dedicated historical research has highlighted the fact that even in areas believed to be well-recognised from the seismological standpoint, authoritative traces of local earthquak...

The Catalogue lists earthquakes that occurred in Italy between 461 B.C. and 1997, and earthquakes that occurred in the general Mediterranean area between the VIII century b.C. and the XV century. Italian earthquakes are based on the latest release of the Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in Italia (Catalogue of Strong Italian Earthquakes), commonly re...

An integrated analysis of data coming from completely different scientific sectors and concerning the area of Palermo's historic centre is introduced, implemented by using a GIS application developed on a data model oriented to issues of urban geology. GIS technology has been an effective tool in constructing a reliable lithostratigraphic database,...

Annals of Geophysics, 43, 4, 609-868 (with database on CD-ROM)

The effects of earthquakes that occurred in a given area contribute significantly to the evaluation of to local seismic hazard. The information concerning historical earthquakes of the Mediterranean area covers many centuries, but the wealth of information made available by historical seismology does not appear to ha taken into account by engineeri...

The current Italian seismic catalogues are generally considered complete, as regards the destructive seismic events which occurred from the 17th century onwards. In fact, research performed using target methodologies still reveal earthquakes of high intensity, not yet known to the seismological tradition. This is the case of an earthquake which occ...

The woody species kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa A. Chev.), a male and late flowering clone of the cv Hayward, has been transformed by a T-DNA fragment encompassing rol A, B, C genes of A. rhizogenes. Transgenic plants, regenerated from leaf disc callus, showed the typical "hairy root" phenotype as described in herbaceous species. Explants from these pl...