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🌎 2016 M6.6 CentralItaly earthquake

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📂 The repository

This repository hosts detailed information about the 2016 M6.6 CentralItaly earthquake in Italy.

Available information in the folders:

  • Impact
  • Recording stations
  • Ruptrues
  • OpenQuake_gmfs

🚀 The earthquake at a glance

A series of major earthquakes struck Central Italy between the Marche and Umbria regions in October 2016. The third quake on 30 October was the largest in Italy in 36 years, since the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. Wikipedia

Ground shaking

The estimation of the ground shaking has The folder OpenQuake_gmfs stores the required input files to generate the ground motion fields considering different rupture solutions and conditioning the ground shaking to the recording stations for the event, when available. The figures below present an example of the results, showing the median ground motion fields with and without conditioning the ground shaking for the rupture and ground motion model that indicates the lowest nominal bias.

☄️ Consequences

The information collected for the consequences of the event and the corresponding references is available in the Impact folder. When available, information at different geographical levels is provided considering the building damage, economic losses and human impact.

A summary of the main consequences of the event is available in the earthquake_information.csv file:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
Year 2016
Country Italy
Region Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche
Event_Name CentralItaly
Local_Date 24/08/2016
Local_Time 01:36:32
Latitude 42.723
Longitude 13.1877
Depth_(km) 4.44
Mw 6.6
Max_Intensity_(MMI) IX
Fault_mechanism Normal
Tectonic_region_type Active Shallow Crust
Fatalities 325-336
Injured 379-455
Displaced_Population nan
Affected_Population 30184
Affected_Units nan
Damaged_Units nan
Collapsed_Units nan
Economic_Losses 5418 M USD
Insured_Losses 81 M USD
Induced_Effects nan
USGS page https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006g7d/executive
Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2016_Central_Italy_earthquake

🌟 Contributors

We would like to acknowledge the many contributors to the Earthquake Consequence Database.