Marco Cattaneo

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology | INGV · National Earthquake Centre

In this paper we describe an advanced database for the site characterization of seismic stations, named “CRISP—Caratterizzazione della RIsposta sismica dei Siti Permanenti della rete sismica” ( http://crisp.ingv.it , quoted with https://doi.org/10.13127/crisp ), designed for the Italian National Seismic Network (Rete Sismica Nazionale, RSN, operate...

The deformation style of the continental lithosphere is a relevant issue for geodynamics and seismic hazard perspectives. Here we show the first evidence of two well-distinct low-angle and SW-dipping individual reverse shear zones of the Italian Outer Thrust System in Central Italy. One corresponds to the down-dip prosecution of the Adriatic Basal...

The protracted nature of the 2016-2017 central Italy seismic sequence, with multiple damaging earthquakes spaced over months, presented serious challenges for the duty seismologists and emergency managers as they assimilated the growing sequence to advise the local population. Uncertainty concerning where and when it was safe to occupy vulnerable s...

The detection level of a seismic network is a measure of its effective ability to record small earthquakes in a given area. It can vary in both space and time and depends on several factors such as meteorological conditions, anthropic noise, local soil conditions—all factors that affect the seismic noise level—as well as the quality and operating c...

An earthquake early warning system (EEWS) is a monitoring infrastructure that allows alerting strategic points (targets) before the arrival of strong shaking waves during an earthquake. In a region like Central Italy, struck by recent and historical destructive earthquakes, the assessment of implementation of an EEWS is a significant challenge due...

A seismic monitoring infrastructure for relevant and strategic public buildings has been developed thanks to the agreement between the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and Marche Region. The project was founded by European projects for the assessment of seismic risk for strategic public buildings, prevention and monitoring -...

The 2016–17 central Italy earthquake sequence began with the first mainshock near the town of Amatrice on August 24 (MW 6.0), and was followed by two subsequent large events near Visso on October 26 (MW 5.9) and Norcia on October 30 (MW 6.5), plus a cluster of 4 events with MW > 5.0 within few hours on January 18, 2017. The affected area had been m...

Earthquakes occur as the result of long-term strain accumulation on active faults and complex transient triggering mechanisms. Although laboratory experiments show accelerating deformation patterns before failure conditions are met, imaging similar preparatory phases in nature remains difficult because it requires dense monitoring in advance. The 2...

Fluid overpressure is a primary mechanism behind fault interaction and earthquakes triggering. The Apennines section within the young Alpine mobile belt is a key locus to investigate the interplay between fluids and faults. Here, seismicity develops along the extending mountain belt and the key role of fluids has been invoked in past large earthqua...

A multiscale approach to the monitoring of earthquakes and their effects can represent an effective tool for the reduction of seismic risk. Devoted monitoring networks are essential to cope with the seismic emergency in urban areas, to assess the damage scenarios, which are useful for the preservation of the strategic functions and services and to...

The 2016-2017 Central Italy seismic sequence ruptured overlapping normal faults of the Apennines mountain chain, in nine earthquakes with magnitude Mw > 5 within a few months. Here we investigate the structure of the fault system using an extensive aftershock data set, from joint permanent and temporary seismic networks, and 3-D Vp and Vp/Vs veloci...

We propose a low-cost and low-power consumption device for seismic monitoring consisting of three single-axis accelerometers connected to a data logger with acquisition, synchronization and transmission functionalities. The device was designed to be densely and prolifically deployed in high seismic risk areas, thus strengthening the Italian seismic...

A comparison between pickings and locations obtained by automatic and manual procedures in the analysis of the seismicity of Central-Eastern Italy is presented. In a first step we compared automatic and manual pickings, demonstrating that in many cases the adopted algorithm, after some tuning, is able to reproduce both the timing and the weight ass...

Earthquake early warning systems (EEWSs) are nowadays contributing to seismic risk mitigation actions, both in terms of losses and societal resilience, by issuing an alert promptly after the earthquake origin and before the ground-shaking impacts the target to be protected. In this work, we analyze the performance of network-based and stand-Alone (...

The 2016 central Italy seismic sequence consists so far of a series of moderate-to-large earthquakes activating within a fewmonths along a 60-km-long and Apenninic-trending normal-fault system. Regrettably, the high vulnerability of the local infrastructure and the shallowness of the largest events (depth around 8 km) resulted in 299 casualties and...

At 01:36 UTC (03:36 local time) on August 24th 2016, an earthquake Mw 6.0 struck an extensive sector of the central Apennines (coordinates: latitude 42.70° N, longitude 13.23° E, 8.0 km depth). The earthquake caused about 300 casualties and severe damage to the historical buildings and economic activity in an area located near the borders of the Um...

At 01:36 UTC (03:36 local time) on August 24th 2016, an earthquake Mw 6.0 struck an extensive sector of the central Apennines (coordinates: latitude 42.70° N, longitude 13.23° E, 8.0 km depth). The earthquake caused about 300 casualties and severe damage to the historical buildings and economic activity in an area located near the borders of the Um...

We present the seismicity of the last four years before the MW 6.0 earthquake of August 24, 2016, 01:36 UTC in central Italy, with the aim of understanding the preparatory phase of the event. Our preliminary results show that no significant seismic sequence occurred in the months before the mainshock of August 24, 2016 and that there is little simi...

The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) is an Italian research institution, with focus on Earth Sciences. INGV runs the Italian National Seismic Network (Rete Sismica Nazionale, RSN) and other networks at national scale for monitoring earthquakes and tsunami as a part of the National Civil Protection System coordinated by the Ital...

The Marche Region, in collaboration with INGV, has promoted a project to monitoring public strategic buildings with permanent accelerometer installed at the base of the structures. Public infrastructures play a primary role to maintain the functionality of a local community. Information about vibratory characteristics of the building and subsoil, i...

Three damaging earthquakes occurred in Central Italy between August and October 2016 leaving almost 30,000 homeless. The first event is a Mw 6.0 occurred on August 24th at 01:36 UTC close to Accumoli village; two months later, a Mw 5.9 on October 26th at 19:18 UTC happened 3 km West of Visso and finally a Mw 6.5 on October 30th at 06:40 UTC, 6 km N...

Gubbio (Umbria) is the chief locality in a moderately seismic area and also a landmark in Italy's network of tourist destinations; this makes Gubbio a significant economic resource and the mitigation of seismic risk in the Gubbio area a strategic objective. To achieve this objective it is required - inter alia - to have a comprehensive and reliable...

The ability of a seismic network to detect signals of earthquakes depends on the geometry of the network, the instrumentation used and the noise present at each station. This ability is not constant, as the state of health of seismic stations and the radiation characteristics of the noise sources change in time and geometry and instrumentation of t...

The ability of a seismic network to detect signals of earthquakes depends on the geometry of the network, the instrumentation used and the noise present at each station. This ability is not constant, as the state of health of seismic stations and the radiation characteristics of the noise sources change in time and geometry and instrumentation of t...

This study presents new geological and seismological data that are used to assess the seismic hazard of a sector of the Po Plain (northern Italy), a large alluvial basin hit by two strong earthquakes on May 20 (Mw 6.1) and May 29 (Mw 6.0), 2012. The proposed interpretation is based on high-quality relocation of 5,369 earthquakes (‘Emilia sequence’)...

This paper describes a pilot project for the seismic monitoring of public buildings proposed by the Functional Centre of the Security Integrated Policies and Civil Protection Department - Marche Region (DPISPC) and the Ancona branch of National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). The aim of the pilot project is to associate to vulnerabi...

Unconventional seismic events in Italy are detected by scanning three years of continuous waveforms recorded by the Italian National Seismic Network. Cross-correlation of signal templates with continuous seismic records has evidenced unusual events with similar low-frequency characteristics in several Italian regions. Spectral analysis and spatiote...

Online Material: Earthquake catalog and strong motion stations. In Italy, strong‐motion monitoring started in the early 1970s, when the Rete Accelerometrica Nazionale (RAN, the Italian National Strong Motion Network; http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/jcms/it/ran.wp; see Data and Resources for a complete listing of all websites listed in this arti...

The availability of multidisciplinary and high-resolution data is a fundamental requirement to understand the physics of earthquakes and faulting. We present the Alto Tiberina Near Fault Observatory (TABOO), a research infrastructure devoted to studying preparatory processes, slow and fast deformation along a fault system located in the upper Tiber...

Quarry explosions and other non-tectonic signals can contaminate seismic catalogues, especially in areas where dense seismic networks allow to detect even low energy events. This paper presents the algorithm adopted for the discrimination of non-tectonic earthquakes in central-eastern Italy, an area with a high rate of events of this kind (4500 wer...

Nell’ultimo decennio, l’avanzamento della tecnologia applicata ai moderni sistemi di acquisizione dei dati sismici ha determinato un cospicuo aumento della quantità di informazioni e di dati da archiviare. Date le caratteristiche di dinamica e di banda dei segnali sismici che vengono acquisiti, ormai non ha più senso limitare la registrazione ai so...

As part of an interdisciplinary research project, funded by the European Research Council and addressing the mechanics of weak faults, we drilled three 200–250 m-deep boreholes and installed an array of seismometers. The array augments TABOO (The AltotiBerina near fault ObservatOry), a scientific infrastructure managed by the Italian National Insti...

In this study we present new high-resolution, regional-scale, Vp and Vp/Vs models of the northern-central Apennines along with accurate 3-D locations of a large set of local earthquakes. The main velocity anomalies are consistent with the surface geology in the shallow layers and present evidence for fluids stored within the basement at greater dep...

Alle ore 02.03 UTC di domenica 20 maggio 2012, la Rete Sismica Nazionale (RSN [Amato and Mele, 2008; Delladio, 2011]) dell’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) ha registrato un evento simico di magnitudo locale 5.9 che è stato avvertito in gran parte dell’Italia centro-settentrionale; l’evento è stato localizzato sotto la valle del...

Nell’ambito della convenzione vigente tra l’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) e l’Agenzia di Protezione Civile della Regione Emilia Romagna è stata realizzata a fine settembre del 2011 una esercitazione sul rischio sismico con l’obiettivo di valutare il livello raggiunto nelle procedure che entrambi gli Enti attivano in occasion...

This paper describes the results of a joint venture undertaken by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and the regional government of the Marches for the improvement of earthquake monitoring in the regional territory. Besides adding many new monitoring stations to the original network, strong motion stations have been installed...

At the end of September 2011 a simulation test of rapid-response to a seismic emergency was conducted in the frame of the current agreement between the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and the Civil Protection Agency of the Emilia Romagna, with the objective of evaluating the level of preparedness reached in the emergency proced...

After moderate to strong earthquakes in Italy or in the surrounding areas, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV; National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology) activates a temporary seismic network infrastructure. This is devoted to integration with the Italian National Seismic Network (RSN) [Delladio 2011] in the epicentral...

On May 20th 2012 (Sunday) an earthquake (ML 5.9) hit Northern Italy at 02:03 UTC,. The National Seismic Network [Amato and Mele, 2008; Delladio, 2011] of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) located the hypocenter below the Po Valley in the Emilia region (44.89° N, 11.23° E, 6.3 km depth). Just after the mainshock, the INGV str...

This paper describes the results of a joint venture undertaken by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and the regional government of the Marches for the improvement of earthquake monitoring in the regional territory. Besides adding many new monitoring stations to the original network, strong motion stations have been installed...

p>Rapid-response seismic networks are an important element in the response to seismic crises. They temporarily improve the detection performance of permanent monitoring systems during seismic sequences. The improvement in earthquake detection and location capabilities can be important for decision makers to assess the current situation, and can pro...

A seguito dei tre eventi sismici di magnitudo ≥ 4.0, che tra il 10 e il 12 gennaio 2010 hanno colpito la zona del Fermano-Maceratese (Italia centrale), sono state installate due stazioni della rete sismica temporanea dell’INGV ad integrazione delle reti permanenti, nazionale e regionale, già presenti nell’area. Questa zona ha una sismicità particol...

Following the three ML = 4.0 seismic events that struck the Fermano-Maceratese area (Central Italy) between January 10, 2010 and January 12, two real time temporary seismic stations of the INGV rapid response seismic network were deployed to improve detection and hypocentral locations. This area has a peculiar seismicity confined in a fragile seism...

Il 24 maggio 2011, alle 12.40 UTC, la Rete Sismica Nazionale (RSN) dell’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) ha registrato un evento sismico di magnitudo (ML) 3.1 nel distretto sismico1 [Selvaggi et al., 1996] del Montefeltro (in provincia di Forlì-Cesena). Nelle successive due settimane sono stati localizzati dalla Sala di Sorvegl...