Characteristics of the low energy seismicity of central Apulia (southern Italy) and hazard implications

Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the southern Adriatic foreland (Italy), and the active tectonics of the Apulia region

“…This convergence has been interpreted as responsible for the active deformation of other parts of the Adriatic foreland (e.g. the MSsz; Di Bucci and Mazzoli, 2003;Valensise et al, 2004;Di Bucci et al, 2006;Ridente et al, 2008) and it is compatible with the seismicity recorded on-land in different parts of the southern Adriatic foreland, both exposed and inflected below the outer front of the southern Apennines (Borre et al, 2003;Di Luccio et al, 2005;Del Gaudio et al, 2005Boncio et al, 2007).…”

“…2). In contrast, recent instrumental evidence shows that to the northeast of the Apennines ridge the SW-NE extension is associated with NW-SE horizontal compression (Vannucci and Gasperini, 2004;Boncio et al, 2007;Del Gaudio et al, 2005. For instance, the 2002 Molise earthquakes (Figs.…”

The environmental effects of the 1743 Salento earthquake (Apulia, southern Italy): a contribution to seismic hazard assessment of the Salento Peninsula

“…The increase in the number of seismic stations since 2000 provides more complete hypocentral determinations of low-magnitude earthquakes, occurring in the Apulia foreland (Del Gaudio et al 2005;Pierri et al 2013). The distribution of earthquakes in the Salento Peninsula shows a clear concentration of seismic events along the NE-SW Taranto-Brindisi depression zone separating the Murge from the Salento Peninsula (Fig.…”

The boulder berm of Punta Saguerra (Taranto, Italy): a morphological imprint of the Rossano Calabro tsunami of April 24, 1836?

“…In the centre of the Mediterranean basin, the Apulian region represents a part of the emerged foreland of both Appenninic and Dinaric orogens (Fig. 1); it is slightly deformed and affected by Appenninic and anti-Appenninic trending faults which sub-divide it into five main structural blocks characterized by different long-term uplift rates decreasing from north to south (for instance: Del Gaudio et al, 2005;Ferranti et al, 2006;Mastronuzzi et al, 2007b and references therein). The front of the Appeninic thrust runs emerged NNW-SSE, about parallel to the Apulian foreland; in the submerged part of the Taranto Gulf it is almost parallel to the Apulian escarpment up to the latitude of Kephalonia Island, where it turns SW (Butler et al, 2004).…”