Seismicity of the Adriatic microplate

Present-day stress field and tectonic inversion in the Pannonian basin

“…8). Space geodetic data (Ward, 1994;Oldow et al, 2002;Battaglia et al, 2004; and seismotectonic studies (Anderson and Jackson, 1987;Console et al, 1993) indicate that today Adria moves independently from both the African (Nubian) and the Eurasian plates. However, its exact geometry and geographic extent, level of rigidity, mode of separation from Africa, and a possible internal segmentation are still a matter of debate Stein and Sella, 2005).…”

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

“…1), that has long been considered a tectonically and seismically "stable" area. Only in its central sector, this foreland is characterized by significant historical and instrumental seismicity (Gruppo di Lavoro CPTI, 2004;Castello et al, 2005;Fig. 2), both off-shore (active Mesoadriatic strip; Console et al, 1993) and on-land (Molise-Gondola shear zone; Di Bucci et al, 2006;Fig. 1), and some seismogenic faults have already been identified (DISS Working Group, 2007, and references therein;Di Bucci et al, 2009b).…”

A soft linkage between major seismogenic fault systems in the central-southern Apennines (Italy): Evidence from low-magnitude seismicity

“…The largest earthquakes that occurred in the region and its surroundings took place in 9 September 1349 (M w 6.6), 5 and 30 December 1456 (M w 6.9 and 7.0, respectively), 5 June 1688 (M w 7.0), 26 July 1805 (M w 6.6), and 13 January 1915 (M w 7.0) (Boschi et al, 2000;Fracassi and Valensise, 2007;Gruppo di Lavoro CPTI, 2004;Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005;Guidoboni et al, 2007;Locati et al, 2011;Rovida et al, 2011). The spatial distribution of these damaging historical events and those from the instrumental catalogue (Castello et al, 2006;ISIDe, 2010) and revised data (Bagh et al, 2007;Console et al, 1993) show that earthquakes occurring in the central-southern Apennines nucleate within a stretch about 50 km wide along the chain axis (Fig. 3).…”