A5035043980- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Seismic Performance and Analysis
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Landslides and related hazards
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Geological formations and processes
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Building materials and conservation
- Mineral Processing and Grinding
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
- Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
2021-2024
Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering
2018-2022
National Research Council
2020-2021
University of Catania
2008-2019
In order to characterize and quantify the Middle–Late Quaternary ongoing deformation within Southern Aegean forearc, we analyse major tectonic structures affecting island of Crete its offshore. The normal faults typically consist 4–30-km-long dip-slip segments locally organised in more complex fault zones. They separate carbonate and/or metamorphic massifs, footwall block, from loose poorly consolidated alluvial colluvial materials hangingwall. All these show clear evidences recent...
Abstract Numerical simulations of seismic site response require the characterization nonlinear behaviour shallow subsoil. When extensive evaluations are concern, as in case microzonation studies, funding problems prevent from systematic use laboratory tests to provide detailed evaluations. For this purpose, 485 shear modulus reduction, G\G 0 ( γ ) and damping ratio, D( curves were collected multiple literature sources available Italy. Each curve was associated with related engineering...
Ground motion modification over large areas is generally evaluated by focusing on source effects disregarding local lithostratigraphic site conditions. Hence, amplification maps of peak ground acceleration and velocity are proposed to improve the forecast a national scale. Topological information about litho-type successions soil mechanical behaviour were retrieved from Italian database seismic microzonation more than 30 million response analyses performed quantify factors (i.e. ratio...
Abstract The Peloritani Mountains, in the southern part of Calabrian Terranes, Italy, have been classically interpreted as product Paleogene brittle deformation European continental back-stop Neotethyan subduction complex. This reconstruction conflicts with occurrence an Alpine metamorphic overprint that affected portions both Variscan units and Mesozoic sedimentary covers mountain belt. New field data, integrated petrographic, micro- meso-structural analyses stratigraphic investigation...
The Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley, at 1:25.000 scale, portrays main stratigraphic and structural features that developed in a 300 km2 wide area African foreland southeastern Sicily (Hyblean Foreland). NW-SE-oriented Valley marks transition between eastern (Siracusa Plateau) western (Ragusa domains foreland, where post-Tortonian depression, here designated as Basin, originated. pictures geometry kinematics border faults structure affecting basin infilling. mapped pattern...