GSA Meeting 2014 - Vancouver B.C.

The 2014 GSA Meeting will be held in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada).

I will give two presentations:

Seno, S., L. Bonini, R. Basili, G. Toscani, P. Burrato, G. Valensise. Interactions between growing extensional faults and pre-existing discontinuities: implications on surface effects and seismic hazard studies.

Session 2 “T1. The Structure of Faults from Top to Bottom: Implication for Fluid Flow, Ore Deposits, and Seismic Hazard I”. Sunday, 19 October 2014, in the Vancouver Convention Center-West, 118. This session begins at 8:00 AM.

Presentation Time: 9:05 AM

Ferranti, L., P. Burrato, L. Guzzetta, F. Pepe, G. Barreca, M. Mattia, C. Monaco, V. Bruno. Active thrusting in SW Sicily (Italy): hunting for seismogenic sources using a multidisciplinary approach.

Session 242 “T38. Geology of Earthquakes, Faults, and Fault Systems”. Tuesday, 21 October 2014, in the Vancouver Convention Center-West, 208/209. This session begins at 1:00 PM.

Presentation Time: 2:45 PM

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Great ShakeOut Drill 2014

Today October 16* at 10:16 AM official ShakeOut B.C. Day, also at Montecito Elementary School (Burnaby, B.C.) like all over the world!

DROP!  COVER!  HOLD ON!

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Two articles accepted!

Two recently accepted papers:

Ferranti, L., P. Burrato, F. Pepe, E. Santoro, M.E. Mazzella, D. Morelli, S. Passaro, G. Vannucci (2014). An active oblique-contractional belt at the transition between the Southern Apennines and Calabrian Arc: the Amendolara Ridge, Ionian Sea, Italy. Tectonics, doi:10.1002/2014TC003624.
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Seismotectonic map of the Amendolara Ridge showing thrust segments used in the dislocation modeling (solid boxes: segment; dashed box: relay ramp; red from this study, navy from Santoro et al. [2009]), epicenters of historical events (1917 event, and 1988 earthquake mainshock and aftershocks), and the trend of strain axis (average seismological Shmax axis from Presti et al [2013]; individual seismological P-axis from Figure 11 and Table S1; shortening axis derived from fault-slip inversion from Ferranti et al. [2009]). The Sparker lines used for elastic modeling (Figure S2) are indicated. Location of the active fault scarp detected from SCS profiles is shown. AS, Amendolara Segment; CS, Cariati Segment; RR, Rossano Relay; VS, Valsinni Segment; PS, Pollino Segment; VCS, Valsinni Coastal Segment.

Vannoli, P., P. Burrato, G. Valensise (2014). The seismotectonics of the Po Plain (Northern Italy): tectonic diversity in a blind faulting domain. Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0873-0.
Pure and Applied Geophysics web page

Sketch showing the four groups of seismogenic sources identified in this work. Group #1: shallow thrusts of the Northern Apennines, including the sub-emergent Pedeapenninic Thrust Front; Group #2: deep ramps of the Apennines thrusts; Group #3: inherited faults cutting the foreland; Group #4: transverse structures (or lineaments), interpreted as the response of the upper lithosphere to the variation of the dip of the regional monocline. EA Emilia Arc, FRA Ferrara-Romagna Arc, PTF Pedeapenninic Thrust Front.