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1930 Irpinia earthquake

July 1930 earthquake in Southern Italy

Field	Value
title	1930 Irpinia earthquake
timestamp	1930-07-23 00:08:41
anss-url	iscgem907513
isc-event	907513
image	Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10191, Italien, Erdbeben-Katastrophe.jpg
local-date
local-time	01:08:41
map2	{{Location map	Italy
lat	41.05
long	15.367
mark	Bullseye1.png
marksize	40
position	top
width	260
float	right
relief	yes}}
magnitude	6.6
location
countries affected	Italy, Basilicata and Apulia
intensity
casualties	1,404 dead
4,624–7,000 injured
100,000 displaced

|anss-url = iscgem907513 |isc-event = 907513 |local-date= |local-time = 01:08:41 4,624–7,000 injured 100,000 displaced The 1930 Irpinia earthquake occurred at 00:08 UTC on 23 July, chiefly in an area known as Irpinia. It had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.6 and a maximum intensity of X (Very destructive). The event caused 1,404 deaths and 4,624–7,000 injuries. The epicenter was near the boundaries between the regions of Basilicata, Apulia, and Campania.

Tectonic setting

The central and southern part of the Apennines has been characterised by extensional tectonics since the Pliocene epoch (i.e. about the last five million years), with most of the active faults being normal in type and NW-SE trending. The extension is due to the back-arc basin in the Tyrrhenian Sea opening faster than the African plate is colliding with the Eurasian plate.{{Cite web |url-status=dead

Damage

The area affected covered about 6300 km2, lying between the Garigliano River, the Crati valley, and the Biferno and Murgia areas, including parts of high Irpinia, the Vulture area, the Sannio Hills, Salerno, Naples, the province of Matera and the highest parts of Apulia. In the worst damaged areas, about seven out of ten houses were almost completely destroyed, an outcome made worse by the poor strength of many buildings. The death toll was reported as 1,404, with some three quarters of the victims being in the province of Avellino. The death toll was low, considering the level of physical damage, a fact partly explained by the number of villagers who were away from their houses, many sleeping in the fields while working on the wheat harvest.

Characteristics

The main shock was preceded by two foreshocks a few hours earlier and followed by 16 aftershocks within the first 24 hours. The greatest intensity of X (Very destructive) on the European Macroseismic Scale was recorded at Aquilonia Vecchia, Lacedonia and Villanova del Battista. Intensities of IX (Destructive) were recorded at Anzano degli Irpini, Scampitella, Castel Baronia, Melfi, Montecalvo Irpino, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio and Trevico. The area of maximum intensity is elongated in a roughly W-E direction. Analysis of historical seismograph recordings suggest that the earthquake originated from a north-dipping fault plane striking N100°E.

References

Akinci, A.. (2009). "Effect of Time Dependence on Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Maps and Deaggregation for the Central Apennines, Italy". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Pino, N.A.. (2008). "Waveform modeling of historical seismograms of the 1930 Irpinia earthquake provides insight on "blind" faulting in Southern Apennines (Italy)". Journal of Geophysical Research.
Guidoboni, E.. "Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy 461 B.C.c1997 and Mediterranean area 760 B.C.–1500".

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