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Local Geology and Seismic-Induced Damages: The Case of Amatrice (Central Italy)

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On 24th August 2016 the first earthquake (Mw 6.2) of a long-lasting sequence struck Central Italy. The 24th August mainshock was in the surroundings of Amatrice, Central Italy, where about 300 people died. Most of the buildings were damaged and immediately after the earthquake Italian National Civil Protection (DPC) started coordinating the emergency and post-emergency activities. The latter included geological and geotechnical investigations for seismic microzonation carried out by the Centre for Seismic Microzonation (CMS) and the creation of a dedicated task force for rubbles management in the town of Amatrice. The present study presents preliminary results of the spatial correlation between the distribution of building damages generated by the 24th August earthquake, obtained by means of the Copernicus Emergency Management System (EMS) services, and the results of the seismic microzonation study of the village. We observed a spatial correlation between damages of buildings and seismic ground motion amplification, quantitatively estimated through an amplification factor (FHa). In particular, we observed an increasing trend of higher damaged buildings when FHa grows.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Center for Seismic Microzonation and to the National Civil Protection for the fruitful discussion and support. Thanks to Eng. F. Campopiano, G. Farrace, P. Pagliara and I. Postiglione of National Civil Protection for the fruitful discussion and suggestions and to all staff involved during the emergency action. The work presented in the paper has been conducted also in the framework of ARCH Project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°820999) and of EISAC.it (www.eisac.it), a joint ENEA and INGV collaboration agreement, aiming at supporting Operators and Public Authorities in better protecting assets and in enhancing their resilience with respect to all hazards.

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  1. ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy

    Sergio Cappucci, Giacomo Buffarini, Ludovica Giordano, Salomon Hailemikael, Guido Martini & Maurizio Pollino

  2. EISAC.it - Italian Node of the European Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Centre, Rome, Italy

    Ludovica Giordano & Maurizio Pollino

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Cappucci, S., Buffarini, G., Giordano, L., Hailemikael, S., Martini, G., Pollino, M. (2020). Local Geology and Seismic-Induced Damages: The Case of Amatrice (Central Italy). In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12250. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58802-1_68

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