Inventory of coseismic effects in seismic hazard assessment and communication: the case study of 2012 Emilia Earthquakes [Inventario de efeitos co-sismicos para a avaliação local do risco sísmico local e comunicação. O estudo de caso dossismos de Emilia 2012

Abstract

In the past three years a wide literature related to the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence and its induced environmental effects has been produced. Despite the important and numerous seismic datasets and coseismic effects catalogues built up until present, one uniformed catalogue is still missing. This lack has oriented our work towards the implementation of a more comprehensive inventory, starting from the aerial photos observation and from the contributions of existing databases. This integrated inventory, intends to: (i) to store the hundreds coseismic effects induced by the 2012 seismic sequence in the Po Plain (Italy); (ii) to be an important source of information for local seismic hazard assessment and communication. The study, supported by literature investigation on liquefaction phenomena, introduces those aspects that from the seismotectonic, geological and geomorphological point of views have influenced the earthquake environmental effects (EEE) occurrence and their spatial distribution in the central Po Plain during these 2012 seismic strong events