Low slip rates and multimillennial return times for Mw 7 earthquake faults in southern Calabria (Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5258-5265

  Galli, Paolo A C ^a,b   Peronace, Edoardo ^b,c  

^a DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

active tectonics; Calabrian Arc; earthquake recurrence; normal faults; paleoseismology; Quaternary geochronology

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACTIVE TECTONICS; CALABRIAN ARC; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; NORMAL FAULTS; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGIES;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLAB; SLIP RATE;

CALABRIA; CALABRIAN ARC; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 84938199085     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064062     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Argnani, A., (2011), Marine geology in the region of the Messina Straits, and a puzzling tale of faults, earthquakes and tsunamis, in Marine Research at CNR, edited by, E. Brugnoli, et al., pp. 845-855, Dipartimento Terra e Ambiente CNR, Roma.
2. Camassi, R., and, V. Castelli, (2005), Journalistic communication in the 17-18th centuries and its influence on the completeness of parametric catalogues, Boll. Geof. Teor. Appl., 46, 99-110.
3. Chiarabba, C., P. De Gori, and, F. Speranza, (2008), The southern Tyrrhenian subduction zone: Deep geometry, magmatism and Plio-Pleistocene evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 268, 408-423, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.036.
4. Cotecchia, V., A. Guerricchio, and, G. Melidoro, (1986), The geomorphogenetic crisis triggered by the 1783 earthquake in Calabria (southern Italy), in Proceed. of the Int. Symp. on "Engineering Geology Problems in Seismic Areas", vol. 6, edited by, V. Cotecchia, pp. 245-304, Istituto di geologia applicata e geotecnica, Università degli studi di Bari, Bari, Italy.
5. CPTI11 (2011), The 2011 Version of the Parametric Catalogue of Italian Earthquakes, edited by, A. Rovida, et al., Milano, Bologna. [Available at http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI.]
6. Cucci, L., and, A. Tertulliani, (2010), The Capo Vaticano (Calabria) coastal terraces and the 1905 M7 earthquake: The geomorphological signature of regional uplift and coseismic slip in southern Italy, Terra Nova, 22, 378-389, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00961.
7. D'Agostino, N., E. D'Anastasio, A. Gervasi, I. Guerra, M. R. Nedimovic, L. Seeber, and, M. Steckler, (2011), Forearc extension and slow rollback of the Calabrian Arc from GPS measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L17304, doi: 10.1029/2011GL048270.
8. De Lange, G. J., J. Thomson, A. Reitz, C. P. Slomp, M. S. Principato, E. Erba, and, C. Corselli, (2008), Synchronous basin-wide formation and redox-controlled preservation of a Mediterranean sapropel, Nat. Geosci., 1, 606-610, doi: 10.1038/ngeo283.
9. ENEL (1986), I Terremoti Calabresi del 1783, ENEL, Bologna.
10. Frezzotti, M., and, C. Giraudi, (1992), Evoluzione geologica tardo-pleistocenica ed olocenica del conoide di Valle Majelama (Massiccio del Velino, Abruzzo), Il Quat., 5, 33-50.
11. Galanti, G. M., (1792), Giornale di Viaggio in Calabria, Naples, Italy.
12. Galli, P., and, V. Bosi, (2002), Paleoseismology along the Cittanova fault: Implications for seismotectonics and earthquake recurrence in Calabria (southern Italy), J. Geophys. Res., 107 (B3), 2044, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000234.
13. Galli, P., and, V. Bosi, (2003), Catastrophic 1638 earthquakes in Calabria (southern Italy): New insights from paleoseismological investigation, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B1), 2004, doi: 10.1029/2001JB001713.
14. Galli, P., and, F. Galadini, (2001), Surface faulting on archaeological relics: A review of case histories from Dead Sea to Alps, Tectonophysics, 355, 291-312, doi: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00109-3.
15. Galli, P., and, D. Molin, (2009), Il terremoto del 1905 in Calabria: Revisione della distribuzione degli effetti e delle ipotesi sismogenetiche, Il Quaternario, Ital. J. Quat. Sci., 22 (2), 207-234.
16. Galli, P., and, E. Peronace, (2014), New paleoseismic data from the Irpinia fault: A different seismogenic perspective for southern Apennines (Italy), Earth Sci. Rev., 136, 175-201, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.013.
17. Galli, P., and, V. Scionti, (2006), Two unknown M > 6 historical earthquakes revealed by palaeoseismological and archival researches in eastern Calabria (southern Italy): Seismotectonic implications, Terra Nova, 18, 44-49, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00658.x.
18. Galli, P., F. Galadini, and, F. Calzoni, (2005), Surface faulting in Norcia (central Italy): A "paleoseismological perspective", Tectonophysics, 403, 117-130, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.04.003.
19. Galli, P., V. Scionti, and, V. Spina, (2007), New paleoseismic data from the Lakes and Serre faults (Calabria, southern Italy): Seismotectonic implication, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., 126, 347-364.
20. Galli, P., F. Galadini, and, D. Pantosti, (2008), Twenty years of paleoseismology in Italy, Earth Sci. Rev., 88, 89-117, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.01.001.
21. Galli, P., V. Spina, I. Ilardo, and, G. Naso, (2010), Evidence of active tectonics in southern Italy: The Rossano Fault (Calabria), in Recent Progress on Earthquake Geology, edited by, P. Guarnieri, pp. 49-78, Nova Scientific Publisher Inc., New York.
22. w 6.3 earthquake): Implications for active fault linkage, Geophys. J. Int., 187, 1119-1134, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05233.x.
23. Galli, P., B. Giaccio, E. Peronace, and, P. Messina, (2015), Holocene paleoearthquakes and early-late Pleistocene slip-rate on the Sulmona Fault (Central Apeninnes, Italy), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105 (1), 1-13, doi: 10.1785/0120140029.
24. Ghisetti, F., (1981), Upper Pliocene-Pleistocene uplift rates as indicators of neotectonic pattern: An example from southern Calabria (Italy), Z. Geomorphol., 40, 93-118.
25. Giraudi, C., and, M. Frezzotti, (1997), Late Pleistocene glacial events in central Apennines, Italy, Quat. Res., 48, 280-290.
26. Guidoboni, E., G. Ferrari, D. Mariotti, A. Comastri, G. Tarabusi, and, G. Valensise, (2007), CFTI4Med, catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy (461 B.C.-1997) and Mediterranean Area (760 B.C.-1500), INGV-SGA. [Available at http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/.]
27. ISMES (1999), High resolution seismic reflection report for Gioia Tauro Plain (south Italy), Environment Program, Faust Project, Internal Rep. R1337-99, Bergamo, Italy.
28. Lambeck, K., F. Antonioli, M. Anzidei, L. Ferranti, G. Leoni, G. Scicchitano, and, S. Silenzi, (2011), Sea level change along the Italian Coast during the Holocene projections for the future, Quat. Int., 232, 250-257, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.04.026.
29. Lambeck, K., H. Rouby, A. Purcell, Y. Sun, and, M. Sambridgea, (2014), Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 111 (43), 15,296-15,303, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411762111.
30. Longhitano, S. G., D. Chiarella, A. Di Stefano, C. Messina, L. Sabato, and, M. Tropeano, (2012), Tidal signatures in Neogene to Quaternary mixed deposits of southern Italy straits and bays, in Modern and Ancient Depositional Systems: Perspectives, Models and Signatures, Sed. Geol. Spec. Issue, vol. 279, edited by, S. G. Longhitano, et al., pp. 74-96, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.04.019.
31. Malinverno, A., and, W. B. F. Ryan, (1986), Extension on the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere, Tectonics, 5, 227-245, doi: 10.1029/TC005i002p00227.
32. Margottini, C., N. N. Ambraseys, and, A. Screpanti, (1993), La Magnitudo dei Terremoti Italiani del XX Secolo, ENEA, Roma.
33. McCalpin, J., (2009), Application of paleoseismic data to seismic hazard assessment and neotectonic research, in Paleoseismology, edited by, J. McCalpin, 106 pp., Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.
34. Minelli, L., and, C. Faccenna, (2010), Evolution of the Calabrian accretionary wedge (central Mediterranean), Tectonics, 29, TC4004, doi: 10.1029/2009TC002562.
35. Miyauchi, T., G. Dai Pra, and, S. Sylos Labini, (1994), Geochronology of Pleistocene marine terraces and regional tectonics in the Tyrrhenian coast of south Calabria, Italy, Il Quat., 7 (1), 17-34.
36. Monaco, C., and, L. Tortorici, (2000), Active faulting in the Calabrian arc and eastern Sicily, J. Geodyn., 29, 407-424, doi: 10.1016/S0264-3707(99)00052-6.
37. Patacca, E., R. Sartori, and, P. Scandone, (1990), Tyrrhenian basin and Apenninic arcs: Kinematic relations since late tortonian times, Mem.Geol. Soc. Ital., 45, 425-451.
38. Peterschmitt, E., (1956), Quelques donnees nouvelles sur les seismes profonds de la Mer Tyrrhenienne, Ann. Geofis., 9, 305-334.
39. Pirazzoli, P. A., J. Laborel, and, S. C. Stiros, (1996), Earthquake clustering in the Eastern Mediterranean during historical times, J. Geophys. Res., 101 (B3), 6083-6097, doi: 10.1029/95JB00914.
40. Piromallo, C., and, A. Morelli, (2003), P wave tomography of the mantle under the Alpine-Mediterranean area, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2156-2202, doi: 10.1029/2002JB001929.
41. Polonia, A., E. Bonatti, A. Camerlenghi, R. G. Lucchi, G. Panieri, and, L. Gasperini, (2013), Mediterranean megaturbidite triggered by the AD 365 Crete earthquake and tsunami, Sci. Rep., 3, 1285, doi: 10.1038/srep01285.
42. Polonia, A., S. Romano, M. N. Çaʇatay, L. Capotondi, G. Gasparotto, L. Gasperini, G. Panieri, and, L. Torelli, (2015), Are repetitive slumpings during sapropel S1 related to paleo-earthquakes?, Mar. Geol., 361, 41-52, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.01.001.
43. Putorti, N., (1913), Di un titolo termale scoperto in Reggio Calabria, Rendiconti della R, Accad. dei Lincei, 21 (11), 791-802.
44. Rasmussen, S. O., et al., (2014), A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the last glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: Refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy, Quat. Sci. Rev., 106, 14-28, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.007.
45. Sarconi, M., (1784), Atlante, Istoria de' fenomeni del tremoto avvenuto nelle Calabrie, e nel Valdemone nell'anno 1783 posta in luce dalla Reale Accademia delle Scienze, e delle Belle Lettere di Napoli, Napoli.
46. Scionti, V., P. Galli, and, G. Chiodo, (2006), The Calabrian seismicity during the Viceroyalty of Naples: Sources silence or silent sources? The case of the strong 1744 earthquake, Boll. Geof. Teor. e Appl., 47, 53-72.
47. Serpelloni, E., R. Bürgmann, M. Anzidei, P. Baldi, B. Mastrolembo Ventura, and, E. Boschi, (2010), Strain accumulation across the Messina Straits and kinematics of Sicily and Calabria from GPS data and dislocation modeling, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 298, 347-360.
48. Stucchi, M., P. Albini, C. Mirto, and, A. Rebez, (2004), Assessing the completeness of Italian historical earthquake data, Ann. Geophys., 47, 659-673.
49. Tortorici, L., C. Monaco, C. Tansi, and, O. Cocina, (1995), Recent and active tectonics in the Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy), Tectonophysics, 243, 37-49, doi: 10.1016/0040-1951(94)00190-K.