Characterization of Seismic Demand After the Central Italy 2016 Earthquakes
Abstract eng: A complex sequence of seismic events occurred in central Italy from the end of August to the end of October 2016. The significant magnitudes of the main seismic events resulted in considerable damage in different cities and villages (Fig. 1), as well as architectural heritage. The long seismic sequence that affected a large area of central Italy covering four regions and lasting about three months, was characterized by four significantly strong quakes with magnitude greater than or equal to 5.4 caused by normal faulting, which is the prevalent faulting style in the area. The first strong earthquake of the sequence (M W 6.0) struck central Italy on 2016-08-24 at 01:36:32 GMT, close to Amatrice, causing diffuse building collapse and about 300 casualties. On 2016-10-26 other two events of moment magnitude 5.4 (17:10:36 UTC) and 5.9 (19:18:06 UTC) affected an area extended to the NW of the August event. After four days, on 2016-10-30 at 06:40:18 UTC an event of M W 6.5 was recorded, with epicenter located close to Norcia.
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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
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2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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