Recently, Guidoboni et al. (2003) described the damage scenario in Palermo as produced by the three strongest earthquakes of the last three centuries (September 1726, March 1823, January 1940). According to Guidoboni et al. (2003), the surface geology and mechanical-physical properties of outcropping soils play an important role in the damage distribution in Palermo (see also Gi-
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