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Seismic Analysis of the Gran Sasso Catastrophic Rockfall (Central Italy)

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The paper focuses on the description of a landslide event occurred along the Gran Sasso d’Italia Massif (Central Apennines, Italy) and on the interpretation of the possible causes that determined some unusual secondary effects occurred at the base of the slope. The study was carried out by coupling the results of field surveys with the processing of an available seismic record generated by the rockfall. The recorded velocimetric data were processed in order to assess the evolution of the rockfall in terms of number of main impacts and energy dissipation.

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  1. CERI Research Center on Prediction, Prevention and Mitigation of Geological Risks, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazza U. Pilozzi 9, Valmontone (Rome), Italy

    Gianluca Bianchi-Fasani

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, Roma, Italy

    Carlo Esposito, Salvatore Martino & Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza

  3. The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), Paris East University, Paris, France

    Luca Lenti

  4. Geologist, external collaborator of the Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Pecci

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Correspondence to Gianluca Bianchi-Fasani .

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  1. Geological Survey of Italy, ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmen, Rome, Italy

    Claudio Margottini

  2. ICL - International Consortium on Landsl, Florence, Italy

    Paolo Canuti

  3. Kyoto University Uji-Campus, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

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Bianchi-Fasani, G., Esposito, C., Lenti, L., Martino, S., Pecci, M., Scarascia-Mugnozza, G. (2013). Seismic Analysis of the Gran Sasso Catastrophic Rockfall (Central Italy). In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31319-6_36

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