For Review Only Page 1 of 23 For Review Only 1 2 3 4 Evidence for surface rupture associated with the Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake 5 sequence of April 2009 (central Italy) 6 7 SHORT TITLE: Surface rupture of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (Italy) 8 9 10 EMERGEO working group* 11 12 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605 – Roma, Italia 13 14 15 16 17 18 Submitted to Terra Nova 19 June 2009 20 21 REVISED VERSION 22 September 2009 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Corresponding Author 30 31 Paola Montone 32 Via di Vigna Murata, 605 33 00143 Rome –Italy 34 ph: +39 0651860419 35 36
[email protected] 37 38 39 40 * 41 G. Alessio, L. Alfonsi, C.A. Brunori, F.R. Cinti, R. Civico, L. Cucci, G. D’Addezio, R. De Ritis, E. 42 Falcucci, U. Fracassi, A. Gasparini, S. Gori, A. Lisi, S. Mariano, M.T. Mariucci, P. Montone, R. Nappi, 43 44 D. Pantosti, A. Patera, S. Pierdominici, M. Pignone, S. Pinzi, S. Pucci, P. Vannoli, A. Venuti, F. Villani. 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 For Review Only Page 2 of 23 1 2 Evidence for surface rupture associated with the Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake sequence of 3 April 2009 (central Italy) 4 5 6 EMERGEO working group* 7 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605 – Rome Italy 8 9 10 Abstract 11 12 An earthquake of Mw=6.3 struck L’Aquila town (central Italy) on April 6, 2009 rupturing an 13 approximately 18 km long SW-dipping normal fault.