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Numerical Simulations of 1461 and 1762 San Pio delle Camere (L’Aquila) Earthquakes Using 3D Physic-Based Model

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The aim of this paper is to propose a physics-based simulation of the two earthquakes that hit the surrounding area of the city of L’Aquila (Abruzzo central Italy) in 1461 and 1762, with magnitudes 6.4 Mw and 6.0 Mw, respectively. Both events are placed, by the available literature, on the fault structure named San Pio delle Camere [11]. The physical parameters characterizing the earthquake such as fault plane, epicenter, and magnitude are considered to be fixed. Starting from them three stochastic rupture scenarios are generated from each earthquake using three different slip distributions. The scenarios were evaluated in relation to the possibility to reproduce the macroseismic intensity field available from the historical catalogs. The simulated values of peak velocity are used to derive the value of the macrosiesmic intensity obtained by a suitable empirical relationship specifically derived for Italy.

For the numerical simulations we used a three-dimensional soil model used and validated in a previous study related to the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. The considered slip distributions are able to reproduce quite well the macroseismic effect of the 1461 earthquake. While none of the three scenarios developed satisfactorily reproduce the 1762 earthquake.

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Acknowledgements

This paper is part of a larger project focused on the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of L’Aquila (see https://www.opendatalaquila.it) and was partially supported by the GSSI “Centre for Urban Informatics and Modelling” (CUIM). This paper received financial support from ICSC - Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by European Union - NextGenerationEU (ref. Prof. B. Rubino and Dr. D. Pera. University of L’Aquila). All numerical simulations have been realized on the Linux HPC cluster Caliban of the High Performance Parallel Computing Laboratory of the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (DISIM) at the University of L’Aquila.

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    Donato Pera & B. Rubino

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, via Alfonso Corti 12, Milan, Italy

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  3. Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), via M. Iacobucci 2, L’Aquila, Italy

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Pera, D., Di Michele, F., Stagnini, E., Rubino, B., Aloisio, R., Marcati, P. (2023). Numerical Simulations of 1461 and 1762 San Pio delle Camere (L’Aquila) Earthquakes Using 3D Physic-Based Model. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37126-4_35

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