The 1627 Gargano earthquake (Southern Italy): Identification and characterization of the causative fault

Patacca, Etta; Scandone, Paolo

doi:10.1023/b:jose.0000021393.77543.1e

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“…This is in contrast to Patacca and Scandone (2004) and Piccardi (2005) who indicate the W-E trending Monte Sant'Angelo fault, or its prolongation, to be the causative structure.…”

Section: The Influence Of Large Seismic Events On Coastal Landscape Econtrasting

confidence: 81%

“…The Gargano Promontory is the most uplifted part of Apulian foreland and is composed of a 4000 m-thick limestone sequence of variable age -from Jurassic to Middle Miocene times. Today it presents an emerged horst (Patacca and Scandone, 2004). It is bordered to the south and to the west by the Tavoliere Plain, which is the foredeep domain constituted by 3000 m-thick terrigenous sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age overlain by continental and marine deposits of Middle-Upper Pleistocene age.…”

Section: Geological and Morphological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the area, five distinct fault systems with different directions and ages have been recognised (Patacca and Scandone, 2004) (Fig. 2): ithe NW-SE normal-fault system, active during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene; ii -the NE-SW vertical-fault system, active during the Early Pleistocene; iii -the WNW-ESE high-angle-fault transpressive system, active during the Early Pleistocene; iv -the WNW-ESE normal-fault system active from the Early Pleistocene to the Middle Pleistocene, with no evidence of activity in recent times; and vthe WNW-ESE normal-fault system still active in recent times.…”

Section: Geological and Morphological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Salvi et al (1999) suggest that the earthquake-causative fault is located along the ENE-WSW structure of Apricena-Sannicandro. Finally, according to Patacca and Scandone (2004), the 1627 seismic event was produced by the Apricena fault (Fig. 2).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The role of strong earthquakes and tsunami in the Late Holocene evolution of the Fortore River coastal plain (Apulia, Italy): A synthesis

Mastronuzzi

Sansò

2012

Geomorphology

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“…This is in contrast to Patacca and Scandone (2004) and Piccardi (2005) who indicate the W-E trending Monte Sant'Angelo fault, or its prolongation, to be the causative structure.…”

Section: The Influence Of Large Seismic Events On Coastal Landscape Econtrasting

confidence: 81%

Section: Geological and Morphological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geological and Morphological Outlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The role of strong earthquakes and tsunami in the Late Holocene evolution of the Fortore River coastal plain (Apulia, Italy): A synthesis

Mastronuzzi

Sansò

2012

Geomorphology

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“…Pollino fault. The Irpinia region is located around the 1962-1930-1980 epicenters (Patacca and Scandone 2004); NMF northern Matese fault (Galli and Galadini 2003); UF Ufita fault (Brancaccio et al 1981); MFS Mt. Marzano fault system ; CF Caggiano fault (Galli and Bosi 2003b); MPF Mt.…”

Section: Seismotectonic Framework Of the Areamentioning

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Late Holocene earthquakes in southern Apennine: paleoseismology of the Caggiano fault

Galli

Bosi

Piscitelli

et al. 2006

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Although southern Apennines are characterized by the strongest crustal earthquakes of centralwestern Mediterranean region, local active tectonics is still poorly known, at least for seismogenic fault-recognition is concerned. Research carried out in the Maddalena Mts. (southeast of Irpinia, the region struck by the M w =6.9, 1980 earthquake) indicates historical ruptures along a 17-km-long, N120°normal fault system (Caggiano fault). The system is characterized by a bedrock fault scarp carved in carbonate rocks, which continues laterally into a retreating and eroded smoothed scarp, affecting the clayey-siliciclastic units, and by smart scarps and discontinuous free-faces in Holocene cemented slope-debris and in modern alluvial fan deposits. The geometry of the structure in depth has been depicted by means of electrical resistivity tomography, while paleoseismic analysis carried out in three trenches revealed surface-faulting events during the past 7 ky BP ( 14 C age), the latest occurred in the past 2 ky BP ( 14 C age) and, probably, during/after slopedebris deposition related to the little ice age ($1400-1800 A.D.). Preliminary evaluation accounts for minimum slip rates of 0.3-0.4 mm/year, which is the same order of rates estimated for many active faults along the Apennine chain. Associated earthquakes might be in the order of M w =6.6, to be compared to the historical events occurred in the area (e.g., 1561 and 1857 p.p. earthquakes).

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Crustal structure in the area of the 2002 Molise earthquake: Clues for the evolution of the southern Apennines

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The Apennines is a mountain belt with paired extension and compression that are explained by the subduction and delamination of the Ionian/Adria lithosphere. During the belt formation, the Adria crust is flexed downward and then incorporated into the wedge after peeling off along some weak level whose origin is still discussed. In southern Apennines, this process seems to have stopped at about 0.7 Ma by the development of a tear in the subducting lithosphere and consequent extension that spread along the mountain range. Seismological data acquired after the 2002 Mw 6.0 Molise strike-slip earthquake yield modeling the structure of the Adria crust as congealed close to the leading edge of the belt. Tomography images show inverted normal faults within the sedimentary cover (Apulian units). Fault inversion, incomplete close to the compressional front, testifies for a final squeezing of the entire, previously flexed, Apulian continental margin. Pronounced high Vp and low Vp/Vs anomalies are observed at depth greater than 12 km and undoubtfully attributed to heterogeneities of the basement, solving the long-lasting contention on the nature of similar high-speed bodies observed beneath the Apennines. Beneath these bodies, we observe a strong reflectivity, suggesting the presence of a fluid-filled layer in the middle lower crust that may act as a decoupling level in the Apennines tectonics. The deep fluids are also favoring the rupture of strike-slip earthquakes, like those that occurred in 2002, and the intermediate-depth seismicity diffused in the Apulian region.

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The 1627 Gargano earthquake (Southern Italy): Identification and characterization of the causative fault

Cited by 62 publications

References 23 publications

The role of strong earthquakes and tsunami in the Late Holocene evolution of the Fortore River coastal plain (Apulia, Italy): A synthesis

The role of strong earthquakes and tsunami in the Late Holocene evolution of the Fortore River coastal plain (Apulia, Italy): A synthesis

Late Holocene earthquakes in southern Apennine: paleoseismology of the Caggiano fault

Crustal structure in the area of the 2002 Molise earthquake: Clues for the evolution of the southern Apennines

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