Mario Locati

• Master of Science
• Technologist at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

Open Science is the paradigm driving the sharing of research data worldwide. It includes the ambition to make FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) data sharing the default. FAIR guiding principles for research data have been recently proposed to scientific communities as the new horizon for sharing data. The FAIR principles crea...

ASMI, the Italian Archive of Historical Earthquake Data, is a data collection distributed online that provides seismological data on more than 6600 earthquakes that occurred in the Italian peninsula and surrounding areas from 461 BC to the present day, based on more than 460 seismological data sources. ASMI is the Italian node of AHEAD, the Europea...

Macroseismic intensity data continue to be fundamental for the assessment of seismic hazard and risk, despite the progress achieved in the last century by instrumental seismology. This study aims at comparing a new macroseismic intensity attenuation model and relationships between Ground Motion Parameters (GMPs) and macroseismic intensity for Italy...

The integration of three software broadly used at INGV - TSDSystem, Metadata Editor and DataRep (prototype) - is at the core of a new version of the DataRep repository that is now being phased out in favor of a new implementation called OEDataRep, the acronym of Osservatorio Etneo Open Data Repository. OEDataRep is based on the InvenioRDM framework...

This study aims at developing new macroseismic intensity attenuation models valid for Italy by exploiting the most updated macroseismic dataset and earthquakes catalogue, as well as the information obtained from a critical analysis of the most recent models in the literature. Several different attenuation models have been calibrated as a function o...

Italy has a long tradition of studies on the seismic history of the country and the neighboring areas. Several archives and databases dealing with historical earthquake data—primarily intensity data points—have been published and are constantly updated. Macroseismic fields of significant events are of foremost importance in assessing earthquake eff...

This study aims at developing new macroseismic intensity attenuation models valid for Italy by exploiting the most updated macroseismic dataset and earthquakes catalogue, as well as the information obtained from a critical analysis of the most recent models in the literature. Several different attenuation models have been calibrated as a function o...

The European PreInstrumental Earthquake CAtalogue (EPICA) (Rovida and Antonucci, 2021; 10.13127/epica.1.1) is the 1000–1899 seismic catalogue compiled for the European Seismic Hazard Model 2020 (ESHM20), an outcome of the project Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe (SERA), in the framework of the Europe...

In this article we describe EPOS Seismology, the Thematic Core Service consortium for the seismology domain within the European Plate Observing System infrastructure. EPOS Seismology was developed alongside the build-up of EPOS during the last decade, in close collaboration between the existing pan-European seismological initiatives ORFEUS (Observa...

An increasing number of web services providing convenient access to seismological data have become available in recent years. A huge effort at multiple levels was required to achieve this goal and the seismological community was engaged in the standardization of both data formats and web services. Although access to seismological data is much easie...

The relation between macroseismic intensity and ground shaking makes it possible to transform instrumental Ground Motion Parameters (GMPs) in macroseismic intensity and vice versa, and is therefore useful for making comparisons between estimates of seismic hazard determined in terms of GMPs and macroseismic intensity, and for other engineering and...

This paper examines the housing market response to the earthquake that hit northern Italy in May 2012. The available literature shows that the average price of houses decreases after a disaster because of the potential underestimation of disaster risk by households, or because of a higher risk perception in reaction to the unforeseen emergency. The...

In current catalogs, the parameters of preinstrumental earthquakes represent the final synthesis of earthquake records of very different type, quality, and reliability. Parameters may be derived from actual and contemporary observations of earthquake effects interpreted as intensity distributions or may be supplied by later seismological studies an...

The parametric catalogue of Italian earthquakes CPTI15 (Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani) represents the latest of a 45-years-long tradition of earthquake catalogues for Italy, and a significant innovation with respect to its predecessors. CPTI15 combines all known information on significant Italian earthquakes of the period 1000–2017, b...

In this paper we describe the macroseismic effects produced by the long and destructive seismic sequence that hit Central Italy from 24 August 2016 to January 2017. Starting from the procedure adopted in the complex field survey, we discuss the characteristics of the building stock and its classification in terms of EMS-98 as well as the issues ass...

Since the introduction of the Linked Data concept more than a decade ago, today the way scientists use and share their research data is increasingly changing. The growing availability of big amounts of Open Research Data is challenging the old-fashioned habit of replicating large datasets locally prior to their processing, and the new Open Science...

Studies regarding historical seismic events occurred during the pre-instrumental era are mostly based on the interpretation of coeval records reporting earthquake effects on humans and buildings as experienced and reported by witnesses. Historical sources typically consist of written documents such as letters, newspapers articles, chronicles and me...

This paper illustrates the results of a research conducted during a Master’s degree entitled “Master in Management of Research, Innovation and Technology”, organised by the Graduate School of Business, run by the Politecnico di Milano, between February 2016 and July 2017. The research goal was to map the complex system supporting the “Open Science”...

The 1932 essay Erdbebengeographie (earthquake geography) of August Sieberg (1875–1945) has been widely used and quoted by earthquake catalog compilers all over the world. Sieberg’s intent to document a global earthquake distribution was accomplished by means of regional lists of earthquakes, complemented by seismic activity maps, and deals with abo...

Introduction. Following the goal of CPS (Centro di Pericolosità Sismica, Center for Seismic Hazard) that is to develop a new Italian seismic hazard map, we propose an updated macroseismic intensity attenuation model for the whole Italian territory and Sicily (without Mount Etna area) that can be applied for computing PSHA in terms of macroseismic i...

In May 2012 a seismic sequence occurred in Northern Italy that was characterized by two main shocks with a magnitude range between 5.5 and 6. These shocks represent a good case study by which to quantify the monetary losses caused by a moderate earthquake in a densely populated and economically well-developed area. The loss estimation accounts for...

Investigating relationships between macroseismic intensity and strong-motion data requires the existence of these two records for the same seismic event and site. In Italy, this comparison is feasible through the cross-matching of the Italian Macroseismic Database (DBMI) and the Italian Strong-Motion Database (ITACA) which are the most comprehensiv...

The 24 August 2016 earthquake very heavily struck the central sector of the Apennines among the Lazio, Umbria, Marche and Abruzzi regions, devastating the town of Amatrice, the nearby villages and other localities along the Tronto valley. In this paper we present the results of the macroseismic field survey carried out using the European Macroseism...

div class="page" title="Page 1"> The earthquake of August 24, 2016 hit an Apenninic "border” area, now at the crossroads of four regions, but for many past centuries on the edge of two independent Italian states. The geographic, cultural and historical marginality of this area did certainly affect the level of knowledge available on its historical...

L’ultima versione del Database Macrosismico Italiano chiamata DBMI15 è stata rilasciata a luglio 2016 e aggiorna e sostituisce la precedente, DBMI11 (Locati et al., 2011). DBMI fornisce un set di dati di intensità macrosismica relativo ai terremoti italiani nella finestra temporale 1000-2014. I dati provengono da studi di autori ed enti diversi, si...

The latest version of the Italian Macroseismic Database, DBMI15, has been released in July 2016, and replaces the prevision version, called DBMI11 (Locati et al., 2011). DBMI makes available a set of macroseismic intensity data related to Italian earthquakes and covers the time-window 1000-2014. Intensity data derive from studies by authors from va...

Foreword Thirty years ago, in 1985, the compilation of the "Catalogo dei Terremoti Italiani dall’anno 1000 al 1980" (Catalogue of Italian Earthquakes from the year 1000 to 1980) in the framework of the “Progetto Finalizzato Geodinamica” was completed and published by Daniele Postpischl (Postpischl, 1985a). The Working Group that authored the catalo...

Trent’anni fa veniva completata la compilazione del "Catalogo dei Terremoti Italiani dall’anno 1000 al 1980" del Progetto Finalizzato Geodinamica, pubblicato nel 1985 da Daniele Postpischl (Postpischl, 1985a). Il Gruppo Catalogo dei Terremoti, autore di quel lavoro, si era posto l’obiettivo di “verificare le informazioni sui terremoti italiani cont...

The study aims at quantifying the monetary losses caused by a moderate earthquake happened on a densely populated and economically well-developed area. The loss estimation refers to the damage of residential buildings and takes into account the cumulative effects of the sequence of the 2012 Emilia earthquake, characterized by a series of shocks wit...

Easy, efficient and comprehensive access to data, data products, scientific services and scientific software is a key ingredient in enabling research at the frontiers of science. Organizing this access across the European Research Infrastructures in the field of seismology, so that it best serves user needs, takes advantage of state-of-the-art ICT...

This paper examines the housing market response to Northern Italy earthquake in May 2012. Available literature provides evidence of a drop in the average price of houses after a disaster mainly due to i) underestimation by households of disaster risk in area where its occurrence is low or ii) overreaction because of a higher risk perception trigger...

The importance of historical earthquake data is largely recognized by both seismologists and engineers, who use such data in a wide range of applications. At the European-Mediterranean scale, several databases dealing with historical earthquake data – mostly intensity data points – exist and are constantly maintained and updated, as well as nationa...

QuakeML offers a standard format for exchanging event parameters using a hierarchic structure based on XML. Since the early proposal (Schorlemmer et al., 2004), the QuakeML documentation mentions the possibility of extending the schema in order to describe macroseismic data. Until now, however, QuakeML does not offer any method to describe macrosei...

The history and development of the European Seismological Commission (ESC) is being compiled by the authors with the help of many other ESC member representatives, past and present. Since early discussions in 1947 and ESC’s “pre-founding” in 1949 led by I. Lehmann, Denmark; C. Charlier, Belgium; J.P.Rothe, France, and W. Vissier, Holland, and its f...

The description of the seismicity of the European region is today fragmented into an increasing number of earthquake archives, databases, and catalogs related to individual countries or even to part of them. Therefore, the compilation of a comprehensive, European earthquake history requires dealing with a puzzle of partially overlapping, only parti...

The study of earthquakes from historical sources, or historical seismology, was considered an early priority for the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) project, which commissioned a study of historical seismicity on a global scale. This was the Global Earthquake History (GEH) project, led jointly by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (IN...

We apply the Bakun and Wentworth (Bull Seism Soc Am 87:1502–1521, 1997) method to determine the location and magnitude of earthquakes occurred in Central Asia using MSK-64 intensity assignments. The attenuation model previously derived and validated by Bindi et al. (Geophys J Int, 2013) is used to analyse 21 earthquakes that occurred over the perio...

In the frame of the European Commission project "Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe" (SHARE), aiming at harmonizing seismic hazard at a European scale, the compilation of a homogeneous, European parametric earthquake catalogue was planned. The goal was to be achieved by considering the most updated historical dataset and assessing homogenous ma...

In the frame of the European Commission project "Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe" (SHARE), aiming at harmonizing seismic hazard at a European scale, the compilation of a homogeneous, European parametric earthquake catalogue was planned. The goal was to be achieved by considering the most updated historical dataset and assessing homogenous ma...

Online macroseismic intensity databases are becoming common tools in the framework activities related to seismic hazard assessment as they can offer a consistent information background. In Europe, institutions such as INGV (IT), ETH (CH) and Sisfrance (FR) have well-established Macroseismic Intensity Databases. In the framework of the EC projects N...

The Mw 7.2 earthquake of 23 October 2011 struck an area of Eastern Anatolia with a long historical record and a long earthquake history. The earthquake occurred in a region of rather complex tectonics resulting from the collision of the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates (Tchalenko, 1977; Barka and Reilinger, 1997; McClusky et al., 2000; Sandv...

Introduction During the last decade, a systematic study of historical earthquakes leading to the quantification of earthquake effects in terms of macroseismic datapoints (MDPs) and, consequently, to earthquake parameters, has been carried out in the Laboratory of Seismology of the University of Athens. For each earthquake, the available background...

The Mw7.2 earthquake of October 23, 2011 struck an area with a long historical record and a long earthquake history. However, only three earthquakes of similar Mw are known in the instrumental period: one in 1976 in the Çaldiran area, some 50 km to the NE, one in 1930 in the Salmas area (Iran) and, possibly, one in 1903, north of Lake Van. In the p...

Sommario Lungi dall'essere «poco sismico» o addirittura «non sismico», come è stata definita quasi unanimemente dai media, il settore della pianura padana orientale in cui sono localizzati i terremoti del maggio 2012 è caratterizzata da una storia sismica plurisecolare e piuttosto ben conosciuta, grazie a una stagione di studi di sismologia storica...

La prima versione disponibile al pubblico del Database Macrosismico Italiano risale al maggio 2007 (DBMI04; Stucchi et al., 2007). Esso conteneva i dati di intensità utilizzati per la compilazione dei parametri del catalogo parametrico rilasciato nel maggio 2004 (CPTI04; Gruppo di Lavoro CPTI, 2004)), a sua volta utilizzato per la compilazione dell...

An application has been adopted to visualize macroseismic data of the Iberian Peninsula. Three institutions, Institut Geològic de Catalunya (IGC), Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), from Spain and Instituto de Meteorologia from Portugal have already implemented in their web sites with information on the most important earthquakes. A computer prog...

The European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD) has been developed in the frame of the EC project NERIES and maintained in the frame of the EC project SHARE.AHEAD makes available on the web the result of a networked historical earthquake data research, formalised in terms of studies (papers, reports, macroseismic data points, etc). It pr...

Two tools have been developed within the European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD) in order to process and analyse roughly 270.000 Macroseismic Intensity Data-points (MDPs) related to circa 7000 earthquakes European-wise and spanning more than a 1000 years.The first addressed task was to investigate interactively on a map such data, to...

Within the activities of the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) module called “Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data” of the European Commission NERIES project, a massive quantity of historical earthquakes related data is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institution...

Among the towns constellating the Dalmatian coast, Ragusa (today Dubrovnik, Croatia), stands out, both because of its location in the middle of the Eastern Adriatic coast and its long-lasting, independent history of a Modern Age town and its small coastal territory. An important intelligence crossroads, squeezed as it was in between powerful and in...

SVG can be an easy and effective solution in the historical earthquake data investigation when it comes to a very specific need not achievable using general purpose software. With a basic knowledge of web languages (HTML, Javascript and PHP) and commonly available server side software (Apache and not spatially-aware MySql) we succeded creating an i...

Since the compilation of the last version of the Italian Macroseismic Intensity Database (DBMI04), a number of new studies has been published. With the aim of updating both the database and the catalogue, recent studies published after the CPTI04 have been inventoried, together with old studies not used for the catalogue and records from previous p...

The probabilistic seismic hazard of Italy was assessed in 2004 to match the requirements of the new seismic provisions. This such map, now recognized as the official reference for design according to the building and administrative issues, is the result of a comprehensive seismic hazard model that takes into account the variability in seismicity, s...

This paper describes the main features of the Macroseismic Database of Italy 2004, which for the first time put together in a critical way the macroseismic data used for the compilation of the CPTI04 (2004) parametric earthquake catalogue. Data come from varied main datasets: i) DOM4.1 (Monachesi e Stucchi, 1997); ii) CFTI version 2 (Boschi et al.,...

la valutazione della pericolosità sismica del territorio nazionale sono stati utilizzati dati di ingresso aggiornati, tra cui: • un nuovo modello di zone sismogenetiche (ZS9, vedi figura), corredate da valori di profondità e da meccanismo di fagliazione prevalente: • una nuova versione del catalogo dei terremoti italiani, denominata CPTI04, correda...

In 2004 a new seismic hazard map of Italy (MPS Working Group, 2004) has been released by a task force that produced an amount of new or updated data, such as a new version of the earthquake catalogue (CPTI04; CPTI Working Group, 2004) and an updated seismogenic zonation. A set of WebGIS tools has been designed for the data dissemination to the scie...

The development of both the content and the infrastructure for a European Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake is the aim of NERIES NA4 module. The NA4 Archive consists of local, coherent, units and a central core, to be constantly updated. "Local Archives" are based on regional data-centres where each reference institution is responsible f...

Historical seismic catalogues in Europe have been mostly compiled on a national basis starting from historical data collected and interpreted according to different procedures and varied levels of formalization. With few exceptions, the macroseismic data that stand behind the catalogues are not available, or simply never existed. The present-day kn...