{"title":"Source effect impact on the magnetotelluric transfer functions","authors":"T. Ernst, K. Nowożyński, W. Jóźwiak","doi":"10.4401/ag-8751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8751","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that the deviation from the plane wave assumption (the so-called source effect) has an impact on the results of vertical transfer function (VTF) estimation, especially for long periods. We observe the so-called seasonal effect, i.e. the VTF calculated from the data measured in the summer months is different from the VTF estimated from the winter months data. This is related to the length of the day, as in the diurnal data the effect of deviation from the plane wave is greater. In the present work, its potential effect on the estimation of the impedance tensor for magnetotelluric soundings is investigated. A unique, very long series of magnetotelluric recordings at the Belsk Magnetic Observatory was used for the analysis. The results showed that we do not observe the summer-winter seasonal changes as it is in the case of VTF. Small differences can be noticed as a result of TF estimation separately for diurnal and nocturnal data. The analysis of prediction errors confirms this finding and proves that the daily data are more distorted (distant with the plane wave). More detailed analyzes were performed by making a precise selection of data, dividing them into those that fulfill and those that do not fulfill the assumptions of the plane wave. The results show that the impedances estimated from data separated in this way may differ by several percent.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75291764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Peak Ground Acceleration by Artificial Neural Network and Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System","authors":"E. Gök, I. Kaftan","doi":"10.4401/ag-8659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8659","url":null,"abstract":"An attenuation relationship model belonging to a region with a high earthquake hazard is important. It is used for engineering studies to know how the peak ground acceleration (PGA) value depends on the distance where there are no stations. This study used earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 4 that IzmirNET recorded between 2009 and 2017 to determine the PGA through an artificial neural network (ANN) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), which are widely applied in engineering seismology studies. For this purpose, 2925 records from 62 earthquakes were analysed in the ANN and ANFIS applications. Magnitude, focal depth, hypocentral distance (Rhyp), and site conditions comprise the inputs, and PGA values are the outputs. Using the Karaburun earthquake, we compared the ANN and ANFIS models using different ground motion prediction equations (GMPE) and the appropriate criteria. We determined the proximate values to PGA values measured at IzmirNET stations of the Karaburun earthquake, which was M = 6.2 in 2017, were used to test the ANN and ANFIS. The results were examined and indicated that the ANN and ANFIS are good candidates for obtaining PGA values for future earthquakes in the studied area. In addition, the PGA values of subsequent earthquakes can be calculated more quickly without any preliminary evaluation using an ANN and ANFIS.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90658480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deborah Maceroni, E. Falcucci, S. Gori, A. Motti, M. Moro, M. Saroli, Girolamo Dixit Dominus, F. Doumaz, F. Galadini
{"title":"Assessing active and capable faulting as best practice for post-earthquake reconstruction activities: the Sant’Eutizio Abbey case study, in the epicentral area of the 2016 central Italy seismic sequence","authors":"Deborah Maceroni, E. Falcucci, S. Gori, A. Motti, M. Moro, M. Saroli, Girolamo Dixit Dominus, F. Doumaz, F. Galadini","doi":"10.4401/ag-8793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8793","url":null,"abstract":"Surface faulting is, together with strong ground shaking, a hazard associated with major earthquake faults. Assessing surface faulting potential of a given active tectonic structure is a fundamental prerequisite to adequately plan the use of territories and to perform new constructions, in order to act practices aimed to mitigate the associated risk. Assessing the surface faulting potential represents also ground for correctly performing re-construction and retrofitting of buildings and infrastructures during post-earthquake activities. We investigated a branch of a major seismogenic normal fault in the central Apennines of Italy, the Campi-Preci fault, along which the monumental Sant’Eutizio Abbey is located. The medieval Abbey is one of the most important cultural/religious edifices of the central Apennines, heavily damaged by the MW 6.5 October 30, 2016, earthquake, focused a few km to the south. Our study, based on field geological, geomorphological and structural survey and trenching investigations revealed that I) the trace of the Campi-Preci active fault branch is not actually located where presently reported in the available literature, II) the supposed morpho-tectonic features (basically, some km-long scarp carved on the Meso-Cenozoic carbonate bedrock), that suggested the presence of the fault segment in the area of the Sant’Eutizio Abbey, are not related to the active fault but are probably associated to a presently inactive reverse fault and III) the Sant’Eutizio Abbey is likely not potentially affected by primary surface faulting. Our work highlights that only a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach allows to correctly assess surface faulting potential in both seismotectonic and engineering perspectives.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73342621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INGe: Intensity-ground motion data set for Italy","authors":"I. Oliveti, L. Faenza, A. Michelini","doi":"10.4401/ag-8709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8709","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an updated and homogeneous earthquake dataset for Italy compiled by joining the intensities available in the Italian Macroseismic Database DBMI15 and the peak ground motion (PGM) parameters present in the Engineering Strong-Motion (ESM) accelerometric data bank. The database has been compiled through an extensive procedure of evaluation and revision based on two main steps: 1) the selection of the earthquakes in DBMI15 with homogeneous macroseismic intensities in terms of data sources and 2) the extraction of all the localities reporting intensity data which are located within 3 km from the accelerograph stations that recorded the data. The final dataset includes 519 intensity-PGM data pairs from 65 earthquakes and 227 stations in the time span 1972–2016. The reported intensities are expressed either in the Mercalli-Cancani- Sieberg (MCS) or the European macroseismic (EMS-98) scales. The events are characterized by magnitudes in the range 4.1–6.8 and depths in the range 0–55 km. Here, we illustrate the data collection and the properties of the database in terms of recording, event and station distributions as well as macroseismic intensity points. Furthermore, we discuss the most relevant features of engineering interest showing several statistics with reference to the most significant metadata (such as moment magnitude, several distance metrics, style of faulting etc). The dataset is expected to be useful for benchmarking existing and for developing new ground motion intensity conversion equations offering a common basis, and sparing the time and effort required for assembling to the interested researchers. The dataset is available at https://zenodo.org/record/4623732#.YNX-AZMzbdc.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90901645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An in-depth analysis on the Quasi-Longitudinal approximations applied to ionospheric ray-tracing, oblique and vertical sounding, and absorption","authors":"A. Settimi","doi":"10.4401/ag-8728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8728","url":null,"abstract":"For the phase refraction index of high frequency (HF) waves in the ionospheric medium exists a well-established theory. However, under the Quasi-Longitudinal (QL) conditions, scientific literature presents various formulas that are not equivalent and that, in some cases, give rise to wrong results. In the present study, further consequences of Booker’s rule are discussed, illustrating the validity ranges of the above-mentioned approximate formulas; and the different regimes for applying such QL formulas are described, along with the consequences in simulating the ionospheric HF ray-tracing, oblique and vertical sounding, and absorption.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87386078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Present-day stress field pattern in the Vrancea seismic zone (Romania) deduced from earthquake focal mechanism inversion","authors":"Andrei Bala, Mircea Radulian, Dragos Toma-Danila","doi":"10.4401/ag-8632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8632","url":null,"abstract":" Vrancea seismogenic zone in the South-Eastern Carpathians is characterized by localized intermediate-depth seismicity. Due to its complex geodynamics and large strain release, Vrancea represents a key element in the Carpatho-Pannonian system. Data from a recently compiled catalogue of fault plane solutions (REFMC) are inverted to evaluate stress regime in Vrancea on depth. A single predominant downdip extensive regime is obtained in all considered clusters, including the crustal layers located above the Vrancea slab. The prevalent stress regime confirms previous investigations and requires some mantle-crust coupling. The S3 principal stress is close to vertical, while S1 and S2 are horizontal, oriented perpendicularly and respectively tangentially to the Carpathians Arc bend. This configuration is present at any depth level. According to seismicity patterns, there are two main active segments in the Vrancea intermediate-depth domain, at 55 – 105 km and 105 – 180 km, both able to generate major events. The configuration of the tectonic stresses as resulted from inversion is similar in both segments. Also, high fault instability (I > 0.95) is characterizing the segments. The only notable difference is given by the friction and stress ratio parameters which drop down in the bottom segment from μ = 0.95 to μ = 0.55 and from R = 0.51 to R = 0.29. This variation is attributed to possible weakening processes activated below 100 km depth and can explain the intensification of seismicity production as earthquake rate and average energy release in the lower segment versus the upper segment. ","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79848381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mualla Cengiz, Savaş Karabulut, Ferhat Özçep, Burak Semih Çabuk, Friedrich Heller
{"title":"Paleomagnetic Results from Western Anatolia: Evidence of Microblock Rotations after Emplacement of the Lower Miocene Yuntdağ Volcanic Rocks","authors":"Mualla Cengiz, Savaş Karabulut, Ferhat Özçep, Burak Semih Çabuk, Friedrich Heller","doi":"10.4401/ag-8699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8699","url":null,"abstract":"The eastern Aegean region has undergone north dipping subduction in the Oligocene, continental collision and then Miocene-Pliocene extension, which is associated with widespread Miocene volcanism. The aim of this study is to assess the possibility of block rotations due to stress variations in the Dikili (İzmir) province, Western Anatolia, based on paleomagnetic data obtained from 35 independent sites in addition to results from 19 sites in earlier studies. The lower Miocene Yuntdağ volcanic rocks were emplaced in three different structural blocks, the Dikili, Zeytindağ and Bergama blocks. Clockwise rotation is found in the Dikili and Zeytindağ blocks that varies from R (± DR) = 12.5° (± 7.4°) in the west to R (± DR) = 35.6°± (13.2°) in the east, respectively. In contrast, a counterclockwise rotation of R (± DR) =-38.1° (± 6.4°) resulted in the Bergama block, in the north of the Dikili and Zeytindağ blocks. A scissor-like basin evolution is suggested during the opening of the Bakırçay graben which led to counterclockwise rotation of the Bergama block and clockwise rotation of the Dikili and Zeytindağ blocks after lower Miocene to present. The rotation pattern derived from results of this study demonstrates that localized small scale deformation due to basin evolution besides regional affects must be considered as part of the deformation matrix in this area.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79430481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of the 1971 flank eruption of Etna from volcanological and historic viewpoints","authors":"Stefano Branca, Daniele Musumeci, Luigi Ingaliso","doi":"10.4401/ag-8669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8669","url":null,"abstract":"The 1971 eruption represents a benchmark in the recent history of Etna volcano. From a volcanological point of view, this eruption was characterised by complex intrusive dynamics associated with significant ground deformation that induced the activation of the Moscarello seismogenic fault and the formation of a new summit crater: the Southeast Crater. At the same time, the 1971 event marks an important change in the eruptive style and composition of the magma towards products richer in K. It is no coincidence that, over the next fifty years, there would be an increase in the frequency of summit and flank eruptions and associated output rate. From an historical viewpoint, the eruptive event of 1971 was the first important flank eruption studied by the International Institute of Volcanology: the analysis of the scientific articles on this activity reveals a greater multidisciplinary content in the descriptions and explanations of volcanic activity. Particularly important were the collaborations of British and French research groups that, together with their Italian colleagues, succeeded in giving a complete picture of the eruption and describing the state of knowledge on the Sicilian volcano. The multidisciplinary methodology used to study this eruption is still valid today.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84905964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandro de Vita, Mauro Antonio Di Vito, Diana Barra, Giuseppe Aiello, Costanza Gialanella
{"title":"Disseminating the knowledge on the complex interactions between humans and volcanoes: the geological section of the Villa Arbusto archaeological museum at Lacco Ameno (Ischia, Naples - Italy)","authors":"Sandro de Vita, Mauro Antonio Di Vito, Diana Barra, Giuseppe Aiello, Costanza Gialanella","doi":"10.4401/ag-8666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8666","url":null,"abstract":" A room in the Archaeological Museum of Villa Arbusto (Lacco Ameno, Ischia) was set up to house rocks and fossils collected by the renowned archaeologist Giorgio Buchner during his excavation activity on the Island of Ischia. The collection is witness to a long multidisciplinary research activity that saw archaeological studies at the center of volcanological, pedological and palaeoenvironmental researches, aimed at reconstructing the archaeological contexts in the complex geological dynamics of the island. In fact, during the different phases of colonization recorded on the island, the Ischia volcanoes were very active and produced explosive and effusive eruptions, accompanied by a strong geological dynamics that included earthquakes, landslides (even gigantic ones), rapid ground uplift and strong hydrothermal activity. In the room, the samples on display “tell” the evolution of the island and its dynamics in four windows and a chest of drawers, where there is an exposition of the products of the various eruptions, from the oldest to the most recent, sedimentary rocks and the collection of macro and microfossils found in marine sediments, displaced at variable altitudes by the rapid volcano-tectonic deformations that characterize the island. A series of panels and monitors accompany the visitor along a path that, starting from the geological evolution of the island, passes through the relationship between humans and the volcano, the main volcanic phenomena and the reconstruction of an archaeological excavation of exceptional value, where it is possible to see the strong interaction between primary and secondary volcanic phenomena and a human settlement of the first Greek colony in the west: Pithecusae. The exhibition was designed with the purpose of educating the visitors and the local population about the natural history of the island and its volcanoes, and their impact on the human life through time. ","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77796369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. D. Renzoni, Sara T. Levi, Alberto Renzulli, Mauro Rosi, David Yoon
{"title":"Should I stay or should I go? 6000 years of human presence and abandonments at Stromboli volcano and an overview on the whole Aeolian Archipelago (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)","authors":"A. D. Renzoni, Sara T. Levi, Alberto Renzulli, Mauro Rosi, David Yoon","doi":"10.4401/ag-8664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8664","url":null,"abstract":"T The paper addresses the long-lasting human presence on the island of Stromboli, an active volcano at the northern edge of the Aeolian archipelago, in the Southern Tyrrhenian sea, Italy. A conceptual model has been built to explore the phenomenon, it takes into account a series of aspects comparing Stromboli to other islands: their morphology, natural resources and geography along with the archaeological and historical data and, further, human attitude to volcanic environments, to risk and to insularity has been deeply explored. We propose a complex narrative where a combination of geological, socio-economic, historical, and psychological factors influenced people’s choices and that human presence is related more to the volcanic (and island) environment (and opportunities) than to volcanic activity.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90795968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}