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The aim of the present map is to illustrate a detailed pre-earthquake hydrogeological conceptual model of the Sibillini Mts. This area was struck by a prolonged seismic sequence of up to Mw 6.5 in 2016. Geological, tectonic, and hydrogeological data were collected from the literature before 2016, subsequently standardized and re-interpretated with the aim of presenting a hydrogeological map (1:50,000 scale) of the Sibillini Mts. carbonate system (Central Italy). The map is supported by 11 hydrogeological both cross and longitudinal sections, which show the underground spatial relationship between aquifers, aquicludes, and tectonic elements. This Map provides a model of comparison for the new hydrogeological conditions emerging from the post-seismic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a photo-geological map for the 185 km2fault-bounded, Montefalco Basin, Umbria, Central Italy. The basin formed in the Quaternary in response to extensional tectonics dissecting folds and thrusts of the northern Apennines range. To prepare the 1:25,000 geological map, we integrated geological and morphological information obtained through the visual analysis of three sets of aerial photographs of different age, the collection of new field data, and the review of pre-existing surface and sub-surface geological data. We show that systematic interpretation of aerial photographs contributed to improving the geological mapping, providing information not readily available through traditional field mapping. We expect that the new map will be used for different types of geological and geomorphological investigations, including studies of active tectonic, Quaternary morpho-tectonics, sedimentological and stratigraphic analyses, mining and exploration investigations, and the analysis of landslide types, patterns and distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The 1997–98 Umbria–Marche earthquake provided a huge amount of good quality seismological data. The geology of the region has been extensively mapped for over a century by geologists from all over the world. The subsurface geology is constrained by a set of seismic reflection profiles and deep boreholes, acquired for oil exploration. The earthquake stimulated the acquisition of many other geological and geophysical data-sets (surface ruptures, structural analysis, geodetic data, geoeletrical data, etc.). As a consequence, the 1997–98 earthquake is one of the best case studies in the world for extensional earthquakes, driving the possibility of building up an integrated model of an extensional system. We use this favourable test-site to discuss the possibility of integrating and connecting the “seismological” faults (i.e. the short term, instantaneous ruptures generated during the earthquakes, representing the effect of a single event) and the “geological faults” (i.e. the long-term, active faults, exposed at the surface, that are the effects of multiple repeated events of faulting). The review of this complex data-set points to an integrated model, where the moderate seismicity of the region is driven by SW-dipping normal faults, whose dip changes with depth, from 60°–70° (the fault surfaces mapped at the surface), to 35°–45° (the fault segments ruptured during the earthquake, at depths of 2–8 km), to less than 20° at depth >8 km. These normal faults are not inherited from previous tectonic events. However, the pre-existing arc-shaped compressional structures act as barriers segmenting the extensional fault system. The depth and thickness of the seismogenic layer is lithologically controlled, since the seismicity is confined within the sedimentary cover and do not penetrate the underlying basement. The mainshocks are located close to the bottom of the seismogenic layer, within the Triassic evaporites. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]