On 8 September 2020, the Italian media reported that the Court of Rieti, central Italy, found guilty with imprisonment between five and nine years the five defendants for the collapse of two public housing buildings and the death of 18 people, following the 24 August 2016 Mw 6.0 Amatrice earthquake; the first of a long‐lasting earthquake sequence featuring nine Mw > 5 events, the largest being an Mw 6.5 near the town of Norcia. The court rejected a claim of exceptionality of the ground shaking put forward by the defendants.
What Is an Exceptional Earthquake? / Valensise, G., Guidoboni, E., Iervolino, I.. - In: SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. - ISSN 0895-0695. - 92:6(2021), pp. 3309-3315. [10.1785/0220210190]
What Is an Exceptional Earthquake?
Iervolino, Iunio
2021
Abstract
On 8 September 2020, the Italian media reported that the Court of Rieti, central Italy, found guilty with imprisonment between five and nine years the five defendants for the collapse of two public housing buildings and the death of 18 people, following the 24 August 2016 Mw 6.0 Amatrice earthquake; the first of a long‐lasting earthquake sequence featuring nine Mw > 5 events, the largest being an Mw 6.5 near the town of Norcia. The court rejected a claim of exceptionality of the ground shaking put forward by the defendants.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
