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Coulomb Stress Changes in the Area of December 2013–January 2014 Sannio-Matese Seismic Sequence (Southern Italy)

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The Italian Apennines are seat of extensional deformation, concentrated along the inner part of the mountain belt due to the opening of the Tyrrhenian back-arc basin during the late Miocene and the following rolling back subduction of Adriatic plate with an extension velocity of about 3 mm year−1 (D’Agostino et al. 2008; Faccenna et al. 2004). Apennines chain is a zone of high seismic hazard (http://zonesismiche.mi.ingv.it; “Mappa di pericolositàsismica del territorionazionale”; D’Amico et al. 2013a) and it has been affected by a number of earthquakes in the past century suffering intensity X or higher several times in the past centuries (Boschi et al. 2000; CPTI Working Group 2004). The most recent examples are the 1980, M = 6.9, Irpinia events (Pino et al. 2008; Secomandi et al. 2013); the 1997–1998 Umbria-Marche (Caccamo et al. 2007) and the 2009 L’Aquila (D’Amico et al. 2010a, 2013b) sequences.

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Acknowledgements

D’Amico S. was partially supported by University of Malta through the research project “Earthquake source mechanisms in the Central Mediterranean in relation to active tectonics”. This research was carried out using computational facilities procured through the European Regional Development Fund, Project ERDF-080 “A supercomputing laboratory for the University of Malta” (http://www.um.edu.mt/research/scienceeng/erdf_080). The authors thank the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy) for providing high quality data. Some Figures were created using the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) by Wessel and Smith (1991).

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Baruah, S., D’Amico, S. (2018). Coulomb Stress Changes in the Area of December 2013–January 2014 Sannio-Matese Seismic Sequence (Southern Italy). In: D'Amico, S. (eds) Moment Tensor Solutions. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77359-9_26

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