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Authors: | Montone, P.* Mariucci, M. T.* |
Title: | The new release of the Italian contemporary stress map | Journal: | Geophysical Journal International | Series/Report no.: | /205 (2016) | Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Issue Date: | 17-Mar-2016 | DOI: | 10.1093/gji/ggw100 | URL: | http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/205/3/1525.full | Keywords: | Seismicity and tectonics Dynamics: seismotectonics Crustal structure Europe |
Subject Classification: | 04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.05. Stress | Abstract: | We provide an updated present-day stress map for the Italian territory. Following the World Stress Map (WSM) Project guidelines, we list the different stress indicators, explaining the criteria used to select data. We discuss the data, which will also be included in the 2016 release of the WSM, highlighting the areas for which we have added stress information. Our map displays the minimum horizontal stress orientations inferred from crustal stress indicators down to 40 km depth using data of A–C quality, updated for earthquakes until December 2015. We have completely reviewed all data, and the data set now contains 855 entries, in contrast to the previous 715. The number of data with A–C quality of 630 corresponds to an increase of 26 per cent relative to the previous data set. In particular, the new data set contains the results of the analysis of borehole breakouts, critically reviewed data from earthquake focal mechanisms, data concerning active faults, formal inversions of focal mechanisms of seismic sequences or of restricted areas and one stress determination from overcoring. The new data set defines the stress field in areas not well covered by the previous data: the region north to the Po Plain and the central Adriatic sea, both characterized by a thrust- and strike-faulting regime, the northern Sicilian belt with a prevailing normal-faulting regime, and the Ionian sea with a strike-slip regime. |
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