RESEARCH GROUP – SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS | Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Wave propagation model due to a potential seismic event

RESEARCH GROUP – SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS

Team:


BATTAGLIA Maurizio	COLLETTINI Cristiano	MARONE Chris	SCUDERI Marco	TINTI Elisa

Topics:

We integrate seismological and structural data of active faults with laboratory earthquakes to improve our understanding of earthquake physics, recently also with deep learning methods.
We study waveforms of recent earthquakes, occurred both in Italy and around the world, to gain insights into the seismic source via dynamic and kinematic models.

Double shear experimental apparatus (BRAVA) at the
Earth Science department laboratory, in Sapienza.

Outcrop of the Rocchetta fault

We use gravimetric and geodetic data to model volcanic systems.On these research topics we have acquired an international leadership, also testified by prestigious European research grants (ERC and Marie Curie), publications on high-impact journals (Nature, Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications) and numerous invited talks at international conferences. Unconventional aspects of our research deals with seismicity induced by modern geo-energy production and green energy (CO2 storage and enhanced geothermal energy).

Slip ditribuition of Amatrice earthquake
Coseismic slip distribution (in map) for the August 24th 2016, Mw 6.0 Amatrice earthquake and the filtered seismogram (up to 1 Hz) recorded close to Amatrice town (Tinti et al 2016).

Velocity seismogram (m/s) and corresponding spectrogram