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Apr 15, 2022 · After more than forty years since the 1980 Irpinia-Lucania earthquake, with this Special Issue “The 23 November 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later” we revisit this milestone geological and seismological event, bringing together the latest views and news on this earthquake, with the aim of improving the dissemination of wide-ranging ...
On November 23, 1980, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit a vast area of Campania, Basilicata and marginally Puglia, causing 2,734 victims. During the earthquake, the fault emerged on the surface for a length of approximately 40 km and dislocations of up to approximately one metre. During the INQUA Summer School and as part of the GeoSciences IR project , ISPRA researchers and the Department of ...
On the evening of November 23rd 1980, a devastating earthquake hit southern Italy claiming almost 3,000 lives. tI lasted no more than a minute, but it changed the area forever. The 6.9-magnitude quake destroyed dozens of villages, injured around 8,000 people and left around 300,000 homeless in the southern Italian regions of Basilicata ...
Apr 15, 2022 · This earthquake struck Irpinia-Lucania region (Lucania is also called Basilicata; South-. ern Italy) on 23 November 1980 (Ms 6.9, Io X MCS) [. 1. 2. ], and it is remembered in Italy not. only for ...
three main rupture episodes at 0 s, 20 s, and 40 s, with Mw 6.9, 6.4, and 6.3, of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake; focal mechanisms from Westaway and Jackson [3]. Inset in the lower left corner are schematic sections (location in the map), indicating the fault system activated with the 1980 earthquake (redrawn from Barnard and Zollo [1]).
Dec 5, 2019 · The M S 6.9, 1980 Irpinia earthquake occurred in the southern Apennines, a fold and thrust belt that has been undergoing post-orogenic extension since ca. 400 kyr. The strongly anisotropic structure of fold and thrust belts like the Apennines, including late-orogenic low-angle normal faults and inherited Mesozoic extensional features besides ...
Jan 27, 2021 · to the earthquake, but linked to specific law 219/1981, urged by the social tension of the city [19]. Still, the so-called “Milleproroghe Act” (2017, art. 9) included the renewal of the commissioner for ongoing issues related to the Irpinia earthquake (considering the period 1980–1981), pointing to long-run implications.
