A new dataset and empirical relationships between magnitude/intensity and epicentral distance for liquefaction in central-eastern Sicily

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C. Pirrotta
M. S. Barbano
P. Guarnieri
F. Gerardi

Abstract

Strong earthquakes can trigger several phenomena inducing soil deformation, such as liquefaction, ground fracturing
and landslides, which can often cause more damage than the seismic shaking itself. A research performed
on numerous historical accounts reporting descriptions of seismogeological effects in central-eastern Sicily, allowed
the authors to update the previous liquefaction datasets. 75 liquefaction-induced phenomena observed in
26 sites, triggered by 14 earthquakes, have been used to define relationships between intensity/magnitude values
and epicentral distance from the liquefied sites. The proposed upper bound-curves, at regional scale for central-
eastern Sicily, are realized by using the updating liquefaction dataset and also the new CPTI04 Italian earthquake
parametric catalogue. These relationships can be useful in hazard assessment to evaluate the minimum energy
of an earthquake inducing liquefactions.

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Pirrotta, C., Barbano, M. S., Guarnieri, P. and Gerardi, F. (2007) “A new dataset and empirical relationships between magnitude/intensity and epicentral distance for liquefaction in central-eastern Sicily”, Annals of Geophysics, 50(6). doi: 10.4401/ag-3055.
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