The occurrence of a moderate size earthquake in a dense monitored seismic region as the recent Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake, represents a unique opportunity to investigate the complexity of earthquake rupture processes and to refine our observation and modelling tools, which can be of great support for the emergency management during future seismic crises. Following a specific IEC's suggestion, we propose to start or integrate a series of new activities, experiments and data collections taking L'Aquila as a test-site with the aim to exploit at best the massive multi- disciplinary data availability from permanent and temporary seismic and GPS networks.

• investigare la validità delle leggi di scala per eventi di piccola magnitudo e possibilmente correlare la loro occorrenza ai grandi eventi;
• identificare sequenze di eventi che siano indicatori di accumuli di stress e formazione di asperità lungo superfici di faglia mature.

Gli obiettivi dei Working Packages

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