Sabina Porfido

Sabina Porfido
Italian National Research Council and INGV-Osservatorio Vesuviano -Napoli- ITALY

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January 1984 - December 1990
Italian National Research Council
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The Environmental Seismic Intensity scale (ESI 2007) is a new earthquake intensity scale only based on the effects triggered by the earthquake in the natural environment. The coseismic effects considered more diagnostic for intensity evaluation are surface faulting and tectonic uplift/subsidence (primary effects), landslides, ground cracks, liquefa...
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The aim of this study was to provide a contribution to seismic hazard assessment of the Salento Peninsula (Apulia, southern Italy). It is well known that this area was struck by the February 20, 1743, earthquake (I0 = IX and Mw = 7.1), the strongest seismic event of Salento, that caused the most severe damage in the towns of Nardò (Lecce) and Franc...
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The aim of this study is to describe the modifications of the built environment that have occurred in 36 years following the Irpinia-Basilicata, 1980 earthquake. In particular, especially in the villages of the epicentral area, changes in the urban and territorial setting have been examined, as well as the consequences of ground effects that have i...
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Seismically induced ground effects characterize moderate to high magnitude seismic events, whereas they are not so common during seismic sequences of low to moderate magnitude. A low to moderate magnitude seismic sequence with a Mw = 5.16 ± 0.07 main event occurred from December 2013 to February 2014 in the Matese ridge area, in the southern Apenni...
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This paper aims to present, through a photographic reportage, the current state of rebuilding of the most devastated villages by the earthquake that hit the Southern Italy on 23 November 1980, in Irpinia-Basilicata. The earthquake was characterized by magnitude Ml = 6.9 and epicentral intensity I0 = X MCS. It was felt throughout Italy with the epic...
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Earthquake environmental effects may significantly contribute to the damage caused by seismic events; similar to ground motion, the environmental effects are globally stronger in the vicinity and decrease moving away from the epicenter or seismogenic source. To date, a single intensity prediction equation (IPE) has been proposed in the Italian Apen...
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Coniolo and Brusaschetto, are two small towns located in the Monferrato area of the Alessandria Province, northern Italy. These communities have similar histories related to development and subsequent abandonment of marl quarry activity that began more than a century ago and continued until recently. Quarrying occurred until soil conditions, water...
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More than forty years after the 23 November 1980 earthquake, which devastated the Campania and Basilicata regions, causing the destruction of a large number of towns and the death of around three thousand people, we have tried, through a large survey, to understand how and to what extent the urban fabric and the most affected communities have been...
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The macroseismic intensity of the February 6, 2012, Negros Oriental earthquake (MW 6.7), which affected the islands of Negros and Cebu, central Philippines, has been reassessed in this study using the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale (ESI-2007). This earthquake caused a ∼75-km-long surface rupture along a previously unmapped fault and resulted...
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Iconografia di una ricostruzione: l’esempio di Bisaccia (Avellino) dopo il terremoto del 23 novembre 1980 Iconography of a reconstruction: the example of Bisaccia (Avellino) after the November 23, 1980 earthquake Parole chiave: Ricostruzione, resilienza, iconografia, memoria
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Preface to ”The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later” A little less than two months after 23 November 1980. While on 15 and 16 January 1981, the “Antonio Gramsci” Institute gathered together intellectuals from every sector in Avellino to define “Politics and culture for the reconstructi...
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Dataset on the Environmental Effects of Earthquakes (EEE) triggered by the Irpinia-Basilicata Earthquake of 23 November 1980, Mw 6.9, in Italy. The entire dataset is available at: https://zenodo.org/records/10277164
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Il 21 agosto 2017 alle 20:57 (ora locale) un terremoto con ipocentro molto superficiale (h=1,2 km), di magnitudo moderata (Md=4,0), ha colpito l'isola vulcanica di Ischia (Lat. N40.74, Long.E13.90), provocando significativi effetti sull’ambiente naturale, ingenti danni a Casamicciola Terme e Lacco Ameno, e la morte di due persone. La valutazione de...
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Lo studio del rapporto tra uomo e natura è di fondamentale importanza, soprattutto quando quest’ultima decide di imporre in maniera inappellabile le proprie leggi. L’analisi dell’impatto dei forti terremoti sull’ambiente naturale e su quello antropico è cruciale in una Nazione come la nostra. L’Italia è un Paese a forte densità abitativa e con un p...
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Le foto sono già visibili, in evidenza, sul sito del contest fotografico e, come previsto dal regolamento del contest, verranno utilizzate per nuovi e futuri progetti di comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica del nostro Ente. All’iniziativa, inoltre, è dedicato anche lo Speciale Obiettivo Scienza del sito www.cnr.it. https://www.isa.cnr.it/web/?p...
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Photo reportage on 1980 earthquake post-earthquake reconstructionsome : covers of books published for the BLURB Ed.
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This paper demonstrates how historical research is a valuable tool for identifying past geological, geomorphological and climatic hazards and therefore critical for mitigating and reducing future risk. The authors describe the potential of a scientific field that straddles that of the geologist, geographer, historian and archivist. Historical recor...
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Many Italian cities and towns have been affected by geological or geohydrological processes. However, due to the loss of historical memory, lessons of the past have been ignored; new urbanized areas have expanded into the same zones where damage and casualties occurred in the past. Despite current practices, researchers are showing how historical d...
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We conducted new UAV Lidar mapping, geomorphic, stratigraphic, and structural analyses along the 2 km long, E-trending, Casamicciola Terme Holocene graben, which follow the base of the 800 m high Mt Epomeo range front, in the N part of the Ischia Island, and is regarded as the source of the local damaging seismicity. We used UAV Lidar DEM at 10 cm...
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The study’s aim is constraining the source characteristics of the Casamicciola Terme active andcapable fault system at Ischia Island for providing a contribution to the local seismic hazard.Ischia is an active volcanic island on the NW side of the Gulf of Naples and belongs to theCampanian volcanic province. On August 21 st 2017 a Md 4.0, 1,5 km de...
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The Mw 6.9 earthquake of November 23, 1980, known as the Irpinia-Basilicata Earthquake, wasthe strongest seismic event to hit Italy in the last century. There were 2,914 victims, 8,848injured and about 280,000 homeless. The earthquake also induced numerous effects on thenatural environment, both primary, surface faulting, and secondary, such as gra...
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This reprint "The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later” presents a collection of 13 scientific contributions proposed by 44 researchers with different expertise and multidisciplinary approach highlighting the most important aspects of the Irpinia-Lucania earthquake (Ms 6.9, Io X MCS) fr...
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On 21 August 2017, a shallow earthquake of Md 4.0 struck the Casamicciola Terme village in the north of Ischia volcanic island (Italy). It caused two fatalities and heavy damage in a restricted area of a few square kilometers. The damaging earthquakes at Ischia Island are no exception. The earthquakes repeat with similar characteristics over the hi...
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The 28th September 2018 Sulawesi Supershear earthquake (MW 7.5) was one of the deadliest earthquakes in the recent history of Indonesia causing ~4000 causalities. The earthquake caused a ~ 177 km long surface rupture along the Palu-Karo fault. Apart from surface rupture, the earthquake caused extensive earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) around...
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Mexico is characterized by a high seismicity, mostly related with the Mexican subduction zone where the Rivera and Cocos plate subducts under the North American plate. Although some historic destructive earthquakes are of crustal origin, most of the earthquakes with magnitude greater than 7 are located on the subduction and greatly affect the popu...
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Approccio multidisciplinare per lo studio dei vini Taurasi DOCG in Irpinia. Uno studio pilota per la identificazionedelle proprietà antiossidanti del vino Taurasi come prevenzione delle malattie cardiache Multidisciplinary approach for the study of Taurasi DOCG wines in Irpinia. A pilot study for the identification of the antioxidant properties o...
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Il 21 agosto 2017 alle 20:57 (ora locale) un terremoto con ipocentro molto superficiale (h=1,2 km), di magnitudo moderata (Md=4,0), ha colpito l’isola vulcanica di Ischia (Lat. N40.74◦, Long.E13.90), provocando significativi effetti sull’ambiente naturale, ingenti danni a Casamicciola Terme e Lacco Ameno, e la morte di due persone. La valutazione d...
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- Nell’Appennino meridionale l’abbandono di alcuni centri abitati è riconducibile in parte anche a forti eventi sismici uniti al dissesto idrogeologico. E’ il caso di Aquilonia, Melito Irpino, Conza della Campania e Romagnano al Monte. I primi due a seguito dei terremoti del 1930 e del 1962 furono abbandonati anche in conseguenza dell’ instabilità...
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A summary of the papers contained in the MDPI Special Issue "The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later" edited by Porfido, Alessio, Gaudiosi, Nappi and Michetti
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https://it.blurb.com/b/10357761-ricostruzione-1980-2020-vol-i-sabina-porfido-efis
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The work of Sabina Porfido and Efisio Spiga is easy to read, almost like a bird-eyes view. Yet, the fluency of the visual narrative interprets critical issues and field investigations. As a suspended world emerges among images captured from the becoming, leading to reflect on memory and historical meaning. This narrative cut takes the reader throug...
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The macroseismic intensity of the February 6, 2018, Mw 6.4, Hualien earthquake, which caused extensive damage around the Hualien area of eastern Taiwan is reassessed using the Environmental Seismic Intensity (ESI-07) scale. We compiled data on earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) caused by the 2018 Hualien earthquake, which includes surface rupt...
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Supplementary material As supplementary material we propose a publication, in which there is the first preliminary attribution of macroseismic intensity for the 1980 earthquake: “Il terremoto del 23-11-1980. Rilievo Macrosismico Stato di Avanzamento al 27-1-1981” [29] and some topographic maps of the effects induced by the 1980 Irpinia�Lucania eart...
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After more than forty years since the 1980 Irpinia-Lucania earthquake, with this Special Issue “The 23 November 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later” we revisit this milestone geological and seismological event, bringing together the latest views and news on this earthquake, with the aim of improving...
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On December 26, 2018 (2:19 UTC), during a volcanic eruption on the Mt. Etna eastern flank (Sicily, southern Italy), the largest instrumental earthquake ever recorded in the volcano ruptured the Fiandaca Fault, with epicenter between Fleri and Pennisi villages (hypocenter at ca. 300 m a. s. l., Mw 4.9). This was the mainshock of an earthquake swarm...
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Globally, natural hazards present a serious and critical threat to life, as a result of both endogenous and exogenous processes. Natural hazards (geological, geomorphological, hydrological and meteorological) quickly present a risk to individuals, communities and societies when they are threatened with disruption or losses, with the impact being a...
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Le Ghost Towns di Aquilonia, Melito Irpino, Conza della Campania e Romagnano al Monte tra dissesti idrogeologici e terremoti. Nell’Appennino meridionale l’abbandono di alcuni centri abitati è direttamente riconducibile da un lato, al ripetersi di eventi sismici distruttivi con I> IX MCS, avvenuti negli ultimi secoli, e dall’altro, alla presenza di...
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Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEEs) such as surface faulting, landslides, liquefaction and tsunamis are widely distributed following strong seismic events and may account for a significant part of the overall damage. Here, we investigate EEEs generated by two earthquakes with different source parameters, both occurring along the Mexican subduct...
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Il 23 Novembre 1980 alle ore 19:34, un forte terremoto colpì un’ampia area al confine tra la Campania e la Basilicata. Il terremoto fu caratterizzato da una Magnitudo Mw 6.9 e da un’Intensità epicentrale Io del X grado MCS, risultando essere l’evento a più elevata energia avvenuto in Italia negli ultimi cento anni. Si ebbero danni in 800 località,...
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New Perspectives in the Definition/Evaluation of Seismic Hazard through Analysis of the Environmental Effects Induced by Earthquakes Edited By: Sabina Porfido, Giuliana Alessio, Germana Gaudiosi, Rosa Nappi mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4375 ISBN 978-3-0365-1877-0 (Hbk) https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4375 The devastating effects caused by...
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We report a geophysical study across an active normal fault in the Southern Apennines. The surveyed area is the "Il Lago" Plain (Pettoranello del Molise), at the foot of Mt. Patalecchia (Molise Apennines, Southern Italy), a small tectonic basin filled by Holocene deposits located at the NW termination of the major Quaternary Bojano basin structure....
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Ischia is a densely inhabited and touristic volcanic island located in the northern sector of the Gulf of Naples (Italy). In 2017, the Mw 3.9 Casamicciola earthquake occurred after more than one century of seismic quiescence characterized only by minor seismicity, which followed a century with three destructive earthquakes (in 1828, 1881, and 1883)...
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ESEMPIO DI RICOSTRUZIONE DOPO IL TERREMOTO DEL 1980-CASSANO IRPINO (AV)
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On 21 August 2017 at 20:57 (local time) a very shallow (H = 1.2 km), moderate (Md = 4.0), earthquake hit the volcanic island of Ischia (Southern Italy), causing the death of two people. The study of the damage to the buildings with the European Macroseismic Scale 98 (EMS-98), carried out immediately after the earthquake, highlighted that hilly area...
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The earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) around the epicentral area of the Pohang earthquake (Mw-5.4) that occurred on 15 November 2017 have been collected and classified using the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale (ESI-07 scale) proposed by the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) focus group. The shallow-focus 15 November Po...
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VIAGGIO ICONOGRAFICO NEL POST TERREMOTO DEL 1980. https://it.blurb.com/b/10359572-ricostruzione-1980-2020-vol-ii-sabina-porfido-efi
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Viaggio fotografico nella ricostruzione post 1980. quaranta anni dopo, le foto mostrano alcuni edifici simbolo di : Castelnuovo di Conza, Conza della Campania , laviano, Lioni, Santomenna, S. Angelo dei Lombardi, Balvano , Calabritto, Caposele , Guardia dei Lombardi https://it.blurb.com/books/10357761-ricostruzione-1980-2020-vol-i-sabina-porfido-...
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Bisaccia, piccolo paese a 860 metri sul livello del mare, situato in provincia di Avellino, è certamente caratterizzato da aspetti particolarmente controversi, che ne hanno condizionato pesantemente lo sviluppo: da un lato le frane ed i terremoti, dall’altro gli interventi di ricostruzione post-disastro. Paese perennemente in frana per la natura st...
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L’articolo affronta il tema dell’utilizzo dei dati storici finalizzato ad una corretta pianificazione territoriale e quindi ad una mitigazione del rischio geologicogeomorfologico. In Italia molti centri abitati,più volte coinvolti in passato da processi endogeni ed esogeni, hanno continuatoad ampliarsi spesso nelle medesime aree nelle quali vi era...
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On December 26, 2018, a Mw 4.9 earthquake hits the eastern flank of Mount Etna volcano (Sicily). The epicenter is located between the Fleri and Pennisi villages, and focal depth is estimated at 0.3 km (http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/event/21285011). This earthquake is part of a seismic sequence begun on December 23, 2018 and a concurrent phase of volcanic e...
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The city of Naples (Campanian region, Southern Italy) has been hit by the strongest earthquakes located inside the seismogenic areas of the Southern Apennines, as well as by the volcano-tectonic earthquakes of the surrounding areas of the Campi Flegrei, Ischia and Vesuvius volcanic districts. An analysis of the available seismic catalogues shows th...
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Introduzione. L'impatto dei forti eventi sismici sull'ambiente fisico e antropico è un tema di cruciale interesse in un territorio densamente popolato e con un patrimonio artistico, storico e culturale di inestimabile valore come quello italiano. Investigare le complesse interazioni uomo-ambiente in un contesto specifico di grande vulnerabilità com...
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Special Issue "The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later"https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences/special_issues
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https://it.blurb.com/books/10118040-confinamento-da-coronavirus-il-mio-domani Tempo di coronavius. tempo per guardare quello che ti circonda, con gli occhi di sempre o con lo sguardo incuriosito del vecchio che appare nuovo. Un paese irpino, 1500 abitanti: S. Potito Ultra, le vie, le luci, le case, il silenzio, nell'alternarsi del tempo bloccato fi...
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https://www.cnr.it/it/91-anni-terremoto-irpinia-casette-asismiche We wanted to testify, through an iconographic journey, what remains of the asismic houses after 90 years sincethe 1930 earthquake in the Irpinia. A testimony of what was and perhaps will remain for a short time in some small centres of Scampitella, Aquilonia, Bisaccia, Montecalvo Ir...
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The application of the Environmental Seismic Intensity (ESI) scale 2007 to moderate and strong earthquakes, in different geological context all over the word, highlights the importance of Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEEs) for the assessment of seismic hazards. This Special Issue “New Perspectives in the Definition/Evaluation of Seismic Hazard...
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On December 26, 2018, the largest instrumental earthquake ever recorded in Mt. Etna (Sicily, southern Italy) shook the eastern flank of the volcano, with epicenter near the Fleri village along the right-lateral Fiandaca Fault (focal depth less than 1 km, Mw 4.9). The mainshock was accompanied by widespread surface faulting. We surveyed and mapped t...
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The housing emergency due to the violent November 23, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania earthquake was really dramatic not only for the communities in the epicentral areas, but also for the villages located relatively further away, that suffered a much lower level of destruction. This is the case of my native land, San Potito Ultra, a small village of about 150...
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Un viaggio fotografico tra il molto poco provvisorio ed il quasi definitivo in un paese altamente sismico: l'Italia-ISBN 978 88 944925 0 7
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Active calderas are the major volcanic features of the Earth's. They are associated with large magma reservoirs and are characterized by elevated geothermal gradients. Unrest episodes, often documented through historical times, are not always followed by an eruption; however, every eruption is preceded by unrest. Explosive caldera-forming eruptions...
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On 26th January 2001, an earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.7 occurred near Bhuj, in northwestern India, resulting in severe environmental effects. No unequivocal primary surface rupture was observed for the earthquake, but it caused widespread liquefaction and lateral spreading in the Rann of Kachchh and Little Rann. After the earthquake, several resear...
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On 21 August 2017, a shallow earthquake of Md 4.0 struck the Casamicciola Terme village in the north of Ischia volcanic island (Italy). The earthquake has the typical characteristics of volcanotectonic events recorded at active volcanoes and occurred along the EW normal system fault bounding the northern slope of Mt. Epomeo. The epicentral area has...
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Resilienza è un termine che deriva dal Latino “resilire” ossia tornare alle origini, anche se non esiste un'univoca definizione, la resilienza può essere definita come: “la capacità di una persona di raggiungere un adattamento positivo a fronte di eventi significativamente stressanti e traumatici che, diversamente, potrebbero risultare gravemente i...
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A modern approach to the assessment of seismic hazard cannot disregard the study of effects induced by earthquakes in the natural environment. The knowledge and mapping of seismic-induced effects represent the basis for providing a more reliable and realistic scenario in territorial planning. In recent years this has been dramatically demonstrated...
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A hazard assessment of the 1976 Guatemala earthquake (M = 7.5) was conducted to achieve a better definition of the seismic hazard. The assessment was based on the environmental effects that had effectively contributed to the high destructive impact of that event. An interdisciplinary approach was adopted by integrating: (1) historical data; (2) co-...
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