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Assessing Current Seismic Hazard in Irpinia Forty Years after the 1980 Earthquake Merging Historical Seismicity and Satellite Data about Recent Ground Movements

Version 1 : Received: 26 October 2020 / Approved: 27 October 2020 / Online: 27 October 2020 (11:16:25 CET)

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Piombino, A.; Bernardini, F.; Farolfi, G. Assessing Current Seismic Hazards in Irpinia Forty Years after the 1980 Earthquake: Merging Historical Seismicity and Satellite Data about Recent Ground Movements. Geosciences 2021, 11, 168. Piombino, A.; Bernardini, F.; Farolfi, G. Assessing Current Seismic Hazards in Irpinia Forty Years after the 1980 Earthquake: Merging Historical Seismicity and Satellite Data about Recent Ground Movements. Geosciences 2021, 11, 168.

Abstract

The Apennine sector formed by Sannio and Irpinia is one of the most important seismic districts in Italy, representing a good case of study due to the plenty of recorded earthquakes that have therein occurred from Roman times up to nowadays. We have merged the historical record and the new satellite techniques that allow a precise determination of ground movements, and then derived physical dimensions like strain rate. In this way, we have verified that in Irpinia the hazard of new strong shocks forty years after one of the strongest known seismic events in the district is still high. This aspect must be considered very important from many points of view, particularly for Civil Protection plans, as well as civil engineering and urban planning development.

Keywords

Irpinia; Seismic hazard; Earthquake; strain rate; GNSS, InSAR

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

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