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The 24 August 2016 Amatrice earthquake: macroseismic survey in the damage area and EMS intensity assessment
Author(s)
Language
English
Obiettivo Specifico
3T. Storia Sismica
4T. Sismologia, geofisica e geologia per l'ingegneria sismica
1IT. Reti di monitoraggio
4IT. Banche dati
Status
Published
JCR Journal
JCR Journal
Peer review journal
Yes
Title of the book
Issue/vol(year)
FAST TRACK 5/59 (2016)
ISSN
1593-5213
Electronic ISSN
2037-416X
Publisher
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Issued date
November 2016
Abstract
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 Macroseismic Scale (EMS) to take the heterogeneity of the building stock into account. We focused on the epicentral area, where geological conditions may also have contributed to the severity of damage. On the whole, we investigated 143 localities; the maximum intensity 10 EMS has been estimated for Amatrice, Pescara del Tronto and some villages in between. The severely damaged area (8-9 EMS) covers a strip trending broadly N-S and extending 15 km in length and 5 km in width; minor damage occurred over an area up to 35 km northward from the epicenter.
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