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T74. Active faults and crustal deformation in the Mediterranean area from prehistorical to present times: state of the art

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Congressi SGI-SIMP

Recent years provided significant advancements in understanding active faults and crustal deformation in the Mediterranean area, which includes diverse seismotectonic settings. This was favoured by improvements in methods and technologies applied to paleoseismology, tectonic geomorphology, onshore and offshore geophysical imaging of active faults, tectonic geodesy, geochronology, etc., and by recent earthquakes that provided novel insights on rupture processes, surface deformation patterns and on the deep structures of active faults. However, many seismogenic sources of historical earthquakes remain unidentified and quantitative parameters for several active deformation belts are lacking.
This session aims to foster a discussion on the state-of-the-art of the knowledge on active faults, seismogenic sources and seismotectonic models in the Mediterranean area.
We welcome contributions that provide new insights on:
  1. the investigation of active faults and of their seismogenic potential;
  2. the earthquake sources and of their relationships with known or unknown crustal faults;
  3. the analysis of historical earthquakes and their possible attribution to specific seismogenic sources;
  4. the seismotectonic context and the pattern of strain accumulation and release;
  5. the reconstruction of paleoseismic events through multidisciplinary approaches;
  6. the development of methods for exploring earthquake recurrence.
 
CONVENERS: Luigi Ferranti (Università di Napoli), Francesco Iezzi (Università di Napoli), Andrea Brogi (Università di Bari Aldo Moro), Pierfrancesco Burrato (INGV Roma), Carmelo Monaco (Università di Catania), Fabrizio Pepe (Università di Palermo)

lferrant@unina.it
 
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