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The new seismic catalog of the Gargano area (Southern Italy) after a decade of seismic monitoring by OTRIONS network
Andrea Pio Ferreri
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari – Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Annalisa Romeo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy
Rossella Giannuzzi
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari – Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Teresa Ninivaggi
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Milano, Milano (MI), Italy
Marilena Filippucci
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari – Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
Gianpaolo Cecere
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Irpinia, Grottaminarda (AV), Italy
Luigi Falco
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Irpinia, Grottaminarda (AV), Italy
Maddalena Michele
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
Giulio Selvaggi
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
Andrea Tallarico
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari – Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
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The Gargano Promontory (Italy) has been monitored by the University of Bari seismic network since 2013, which has supported civil protection since 2019. Ten years of data were reanalyzed using automatic methods, detecting more than 7100 events. After manual review, 4098 were confirmed as earthquakes. Their locations, deep in the crust, suggest a potentially hazardous structure that requires further investigation.
The Gargano Promontory (Italy) has been monitored by the University of Bari seismic network...
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