TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconnaissance of 2016 central Italy earthquake sequence
AU - Stewart, Jonathan P.
AU - Zimmaro, Paolo
AU - Lanzo, Giuseppe
AU - Mazzoni, Silvia
AU - Ausilio, Ernesto
AU - Aversa, Stefano
AU - Bozzoni, Francesca
AU - Cairo, Roberto
AU - Capatti, Maria Chiara
AU - Castiglia, Massimina
AU - Chiabrando, Filiberto
AU - Chiaradonna, Anna
AU - D'Onofrio, Anna
AU - Dashti, Shideh
AU - De Risi, Raffaele
AU - De Silva, Filomena
AU - Della Pasqua, Fernando
AU - Dezi, Francesca
AU - Di Domenica, Alessandra
AU - Di Sarno, Luigi
AU - Durante, Maria Giovanna
AU - Falcucci, Emanuela
AU - Foti, Sebastiano
AU - Franke, Kevin W.
AU - Galadini, Fabrizio
AU - Giallini, Silvia
AU - Gori, Stefano
AU - Kayen, Robert E.
AU - Kishida, Tadahiro
AU - Lingua, Andrea
AU - Lingwall, Bret
AU - Mucciacciaro, Michele
AU - Pagliaroli, Alessandro
AU - Passeri, Federico
AU - Pelekis, Panagiotis
AU - Pizzi, Alberto
AU - Reimschiissel, Brandon
AU - Santo, Antonio
AU - De Magistris, Filippo Santucci
AU - Scasserra, Giuseppe
AU - Sextos, Anastasios
AU - Sica, Stefania
AU - Silvestri, Francesco
AU - Simonelli, Armando L.
AU - Spanò, Antonia
AU - Tommasi, Paolo
AU - Tropeano, Giuseppe
N1 - Funding Information:
As described in the next section, the postevent reconnaissance involved two teams working in a coordinated manner. The first and largest team, with whom most of the authors of this paper were associated, was organized under the auspices of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association, which is funded by the United States (U.S.) National Science Foundation (NSF). We conducted major reconnaissance activities in collaboration with many partnering organizations in Italy and elsewhere, with a focus on the scientific and engineering aspects of the events. The second team was organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) under the leadership of coauthor Silvia Mazzoni, which worked with several Italian partnering organizations. The EERI team also documented structural damage, although their principal focus was emergency response and medium-and long-term recovery and reconstruction efforts from a societal-resiliency perspective.
Funding Information:
The GEER Association is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Geotechnical Engineering Program under Grant Number CMMI-1266418. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The GEER Association is made possible by the vision and support of the NSF Geotechnical Engineering Program Directors: Richard Fragaszy and the late Cliff Astill. GEER members also donate their time, talent, and resources to collect time-sensitive field observations of the effects of extreme events.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Central Italy earthquake sequence nominally began on 24 August 2016 with aM6.1 event on a normal fault that produced devastating effects in the town of Amatrice and several nearby villages and hamlets. A major international response was undertaken to record the effects of this disaster, including surface faulting, ground motions, landslides, and damage patterns to structures. This work targeted the development of high-value case histories useful to future research. Subsequent events in October 2016 exacerbated the damage in previously affected areas and caused damage to new areas in the north, particularly the relatively large town of Norcia. Additional reconnaissance after a M6.5 event on 30 October 2016 documented and mapped several large landslide features and increased damage states for structures in villages and hamlets throughout the region. This paper provides an overview of the reconnaissance activities undertaken to document and map these and other effects, and highlights valuable lessons learned regarding faulting and ground motions, engineering effects, and emergency response to this disaster.
AB - The Central Italy earthquake sequence nominally began on 24 August 2016 with aM6.1 event on a normal fault that produced devastating effects in the town of Amatrice and several nearby villages and hamlets. A major international response was undertaken to record the effects of this disaster, including surface faulting, ground motions, landslides, and damage patterns to structures. This work targeted the development of high-value case histories useful to future research. Subsequent events in October 2016 exacerbated the damage in previously affected areas and caused damage to new areas in the north, particularly the relatively large town of Norcia. Additional reconnaissance after a M6.5 event on 30 October 2016 documented and mapped several large landslide features and increased damage states for structures in villages and hamlets throughout the region. This paper provides an overview of the reconnaissance activities undertaken to document and map these and other effects, and highlights valuable lessons learned regarding faulting and ground motions, engineering effects, and emergency response to this disaster.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85059312543
U2 - 10.1193/080317EQS151M
DO - 10.1193/080317EQS151M
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059312543
SN - 8755-2930
VL - 34
SP - 1547
EP - 1555
JO - Earthquake Spectra
JF - Earthquake Spectra
IS - 4
ER -
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