Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/7390
Authors: Di Luccio, F.* 
Pino, N. A.* 
Title: Elementary seismological analysis applied to the April 6, 2009 L'Aquila mainshock and its larger aftershock
Journal: Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata 
Series/Report no.: 3/52 (2011)
Publisher: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste, Italy
Issue Date: Sep-2011
DOI: 10.4430/bgta0030
URL: http://www2.ogs.trieste.it/bgta/pdf/bgta0030_DILUCCIO.pdf
Keywords: L'Aquila 2009 earthquake
directivity
seismic source
seismogram analysis
Subject Classification04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.99. General or miscellaneous 
Abstract: To understand the source complexity of the April 6, 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (MW = 6.3), a quick seismological analysis is done on the waveforms of the mainshock and the larger aftershock that occurred on April 7, 2009. We prove that a simple waveform analysis gives useful insights into the source complexity, as soon as the seismograms are available after the earthquake occurrence, whereas the reconstruction of the rupture dynamics through the application of sophisticated techniques requires a definitely longer time. We analyzed the seismograms recorded at broadband and strong motion stations and provided firm constraints on rupture kinematics, slip distribution, and static surface deformation, also discriminating the actual fault plane. We found that two distinct rupture patches associated with different fracture propagation directions and possibly occurring on distinct rupture planes, characterized the source kinematics of the April 6 events. An initial updip propagation successively proceeds toward SE, possibly on a different plane. We also show that the same processing, applied to the April 7, 2009 aftershock (MW = 5.6), allows us to obtain useful information also in the case of lower magnitude events. Smaller events with similar location and source mechanism as the mainshock, to be used as Green’s empirical function, occur in the days before or within tens of minutes to a few hours after the mainshock. These quick, preliminary analyses can provide useful constraints for more refined studies, such as inversion of data for imaging the rupture evolution and the slip distribution on the fault plane. We suggest implementing these analyses for real, automatic or semi-automatic, investigations.
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