GPS observations of coseismic deformation following the 2016, August 24, Mw 6 Amatrice earthquake (central Italy): data, analysis and preliminary fault model

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Daniele Cheloni
Enrico Serpelloni
Roberto Devoti
Nicola D'Agostino
Grazia Pietrantonio
Federica Riguzzi
Marco Anzidei
Antonio Avallone
Adriano Cavaliere
Gianpaolo Cecere
Ciriaco D'Ambrosio
Alessandra Esposito
Luigi Falco
Alessandro Galvani
Giulio Selvaggi
Vincenzo Sepe
Stefano Calcaterra
Roberta Giuliani
Maurizio Mattone
Piera Gambino
Luigi Abruzzese
Vincenzo Cardinale
Angelo Castagnozzi
Giovanni De Luca
Angelo Massucci
Antonio Memmolo
Franco Migliari
Felice Minichiello
Luigi Zarrilli

Abstract

We used continuous Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements to infer the fault geometry and the amount of coseismic slip associated to the August 24, 2016 Mw 6 Amatrice earthquake. We realized a three dimensional coseismic displacement field by combining different geodetic solutions generated by three independent analyses of the raw GPS observations. The coseismic deformation field described in this work aims at representing a consensus solution that minimizes the systematic biases potentially present in the individual geodetic solutions. Because of the limited number of stations available we modeled the measured coseismic displacements using a uniform slip model, deriving the geometry and kinematics of the causative fault, finding good agreement between our geodetically derived fault plane and other seismological and geological observations. 

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Cheloni, D., Serpelloni, E., Devoti, R., D’Agostino, N., Pietrantonio, G., Riguzzi, F., Anzidei, M., Avallone, A., Cavaliere, A., Cecere, G., D’Ambrosio, C., Esposito, A., Falco, L., Galvani, A., Selvaggi, G., Sepe, V., Calcaterra, S., Giuliani, R., Mattone, M., Gambino, P., Abruzzese, L., Cardinale, V., Castagnozzi, A., De Luca, G., Massucci, A., Memmolo, A., Migliari, F., Minichiello, F. and Zarrilli, L. (2016) “GPS observations of coseismic deformation following the 2016, August 24, Mw 6 Amatrice earthquake (central Italy): data, analysis and preliminary fault model”, Annals of Geophysics, 59. doi: 10.4401/ag-7269.
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