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DOI	10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228189
	From Historical Seismology to seismogenic source models, 20 years on: Excerpts from the Italian experience
	Valensise G.; Vannoli P.; Burrato P.; Fracassi U.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	00401951
卷号	774
英文摘要	Large earthquakes occur rather orderly in space and time; hence they can be somehow anticipated, and their effects can be projected into the future. The modern practice of seismic hazard assessment rests on these principles and may rely on them, but also requires a detailed knowledge of the location and characteristics of individual earthquake sources. We discuss how this knowledge base can be constructed, with an eye on the geological history, which provides a record of the faults capable of generating large earthquakes, and one on the human history, which supplies evidence for whether, where and how these faults have actually caused damaging earthquakes in the past. How do these two records interact with each other? It is now accepted that identifying active and potentially seismogenic faults in Italy is especially hard. The geological record may be clear and honest when dealing with processes at the scale of several million years, but can be very difficult to decipher if we are concerned with contemporary geological processes, such as earthquakes. Shortening the tim E-W indow of observation of earthquake activity is why Historical Seismology is so crucial for constructing a seismogenic source model. To this end we exploited a number of key Italian destructive earthquakes, each of which illuminates a recent geological process that may not offer a discernible surface signature. Our findings led us to reconsider the tectonic style of large areas, changed our perception of their earthquake potential, hinted at the existence of unknown seismogenic zones, and even led to downsizing the magnitude of the largest Italian historical earthquakes. We maintain that the complexity of the geological setting may be counterbalanced by the richness of the historical earthquake record. We also believe that our experience in the combined investigation of Italy's historical earthquakes and seismogenic sources may be replicated in all earthquake-prone countries that exhibit a history of human settlement throughout the millennia. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Historical Seismology Italy Seismogenic sources SHA
英文关键词	Faulting; Knowledge based systems; Earthquake activity; Earthquake potential; Geological history; Geological process; Geological setting; Historical earthquakes; Seismic hazard assessment; Seismogenic faults; Earthquakes; earthquake damage; earthquake event; earthquake magnitude; geological record; hazard assessment; seismic hazard; seismic source; seismic zone; seismology; Italy
语种	英语
来源期刊	Tectonophysics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/207889
作者单位	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Valensise G.,Vannoli P.,Burrato P.,et al. From Historical Seismology to seismogenic source models, 20 years on: Excerpts from the Italian experience[J],2020,774.
APA	Valensise G.,Vannoli P.,Burrato P.,&Fracassi U..(2020).From Historical Seismology to seismogenic source models, 20 years on: Excerpts from the Italian experience.Tectonophysics,774.
MLA	Valensise G.,et al."From Historical Seismology to seismogenic source models, 20 years on: Excerpts from the Italian experience".Tectonophysics 774(2020).