Publication Date:
2017-04-04
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In this article the implementation and potential of the Seismotectonic Information
System of the Campania Region (SISCam) are described, in particular an application of this Web-based GIS system to the seismotectonic analysis of the Sannio area (Southern Apennines) is performed. WEB-GIS technologies greatly contribute to both the
environmental monitoring and the disaster management of areas affected by high natural
risks. Specifically the SISCam system has been developed with the aim of providing easy access and fast diffusion, through Internet technology, of the most significant geological, geophysical, and territorial data relative to the Campania Region. The Sannio area has been
selected as our application example because it is among the most active seismic regions in Italy. This portion of the Southern Apennines which was hit by the June 5, 1688 strong earthquake (MW = 6.7, CPTI 1999) and by some low- and moderate-energy seismic
sequences (1990–1992, 1997), is characterized by a complex inherited tectonic setting and low-tectonic deformation rates that hide the seismogenic sources position. Since this case
study turned out to be complicated, the use of the SIScam WEB-GIS has become indispensable because it allowed us to visualize, integrate and analyze all the data available, in order to obtain an accurate and direct picture of the seismotectonic setting of the area.
Moreover, a different approach of data analysis was necessary, due to the lack of up-todate neotectonic and structural data; therefore, the operation of this GIS system enabled us to process and generate some original informative layers, through image analysis, such as new structural lineaments represented on a map of the potential active faults of the area, which has been the final result of our application, as a contribution to new knowledge about the local seismic risk parameters.
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Published
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on line first
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5.4. TTC - Sistema Informativo Territoriale
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JCR Journal
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reserved
Keywords:
Web-based GIS
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Seismotectonic data
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04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.11. Seismic risk
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04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.07. Tectonics
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05. General::05.02. Data dissemination::05.02.02. Seismological data
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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