Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/10500
DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorallCannavò, F.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Catania, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.authorallGambino, S.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Catania, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.authorallPuglisi, B.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Catania, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.authorallVelardita, R.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Catania, Catania, Italiaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-22T14:23:09Zen
dc.date.available2017-03-22T14:23:09Zen
dc.date.issued2016-11-28en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2122/10500en
dc.description.abstractThe Timpe Fault System is the source of very shallow but destructive earthquakes that affect several towns and villages on the eastern flank of Mt. Etna (Italy). In 1984, several seismic events, and specifically on 19 and 25 October, caused one fatality, 12 injuries and produced serious damage in the Zafferana and Acireale territories. This seismicity was mainly related to the activity of the Fiandaca Fault, one of the structures belonging to the Timpe Fault System. We inverted ground deformation data collected by a geodimeter trilateration network set up in 1977 at a low altitude along the eastern side of the volcano in order to define the Timpe Fault System faulting mechanisms linked to the seismicity in 1984. We have found that in the period May 1980–October 1984, the Fiandaca Fault was affected by a strike-slip and normal dip-slip of about 20.4 and 12.7 cm respectively. This result is kinematically consistent with field observations of the coseismic ground ruptures along the fault but it is notably large compared to displacements estimated by seismicity, then suggesting that most of the slip over the fault plane was aseismic. The results once again confirm how seismicity and its relation with ground ruptures and creep displacement represent a very high hazard to the several towns and villages situated along the Timpe Fault System.en
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.relation.ispartofNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)en
dc.relation.ispartofseries/16(2016)en
dc.subjectData inversionen
dc.subjectTimpe Fault Systemen
dc.titleModeling ground deformation associated with the destructive earthquakes occurring on Mt. Etna’s southeastern flank in 1984en
dc.typearticleen
dc.description.statusPublisheden
dc.type.QualityControlPeer-revieweden
dc.description.pagenumber2443–2453en
dc.subject.INGV04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.99. General or miscellaneousen
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/nhess-16-2443-2016en
dc.description.obiettivoSpecifico1V. Storia e struttura dei sistemi vulcanicien
dc.description.journalTypeJCR Journalen
dc.description.fulltextopenen
dc.relation.issn1561-8633en
dc.relation.eissn1684-9981en
dc.contributor.authorCannavò, F.en
dc.contributor.authorGambino, S.en
dc.contributor.authorPuglisi, B.en
dc.contributor.authorVelardita, R.en
dc.contributor.departmentIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.departmentIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.departmentIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italiaen
dc.contributor.departmentIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italiaen
item.openairetypearticle-
item.cerifentitytypePublications-
item.languageiso639-1en-
item.grantfulltextopen-
item.openairecristypehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf-
item.fulltextWith Fulltext-
crisitem.author.deptIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia-
crisitem.author.deptIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia-
crisitem.author.deptIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia-
crisitem.author.deptIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0001-7550-8579-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0001-8055-3059-
crisitem.author.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.author.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.author.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.author.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.classification.parent04. Solid Earth-
crisitem.department.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.department.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.department.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
crisitem.department.parentorgIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-
Appears in Collections:Article published / in press
Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat
2016 Cannavo et al.pdf2.82 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Show simple item record

WEB OF SCIENCETM
Citations 50

2
checked on Feb 7, 2021

Page view(s)

146
checked on Mar 27, 2024

Download(s)

105
checked on Mar 27, 2024

Google ScholarTM

Check

Altmetric