Strain and regional stress databases of active deformation patterns are largely available in the literature but are almost exclusively derived from earthquakes and geodetic data. However, in areas such as Italy, where the regional stress field has remained unchanged over the last few million years, the analysis of structural data relevant for seismogenic purposes can be extended at least to the overall Quaternary time interval. QUIN was born with this assumption. It is a “QUaternary fault strain INdicators database” designed to integrate, unify and elaborate published and new high-detailed geologic information on potentially seismogenic faults. It provides data on the location, attitude, kinematics, and deformation axes of Fault Striation Pairs (FSPs) measured on Quaternary faults, together with an original shapefile of the faults hosting the FSP. The first QUIN release provides data on FSP exposed along the intra-Apennine Quaternary extensional faults of Central Italy (Lavecchia et al., 2021). The second QUIN release will focus on the southern Apennines of Italy and Calabria. The two combined databases provide data on more than 7000 FSP Pairs surveyed in about 700 structural sites along the extent of Peninsular Italy for about 1000 km from northern Tuscany to southern Calabria. Up to now, the QUIN research project has involved CRUST researchers working in the PRIN Project MUSE-4D (UniCatania, UniChieti, UniPerugia) with colleagues from the University of London and Roma INGV. In the future, the QUIN project may be extended to other areas to integrate with geological data contemporary geometric and kinematic deformation patterns that might be scattered and incomplete whenever exclusively derived from earthquake data. Researchers interested in collaborating for future project extensions to other areas of the world are invited to contact us!
QUaternary fault strain INdicators database (QUIN 1.0 and 2.0) – a release of more than 7000 fault/slip data with strain parameters from the Extensional Belt of Peninsular Italy
Lavecchia G.;Bello S.;Andrenacci C.;Cirillo D.;Pietrolungo F.;Talone D.;Ferranti L.;Carboni F.;de Nardis R.;
2023-01-01
Abstract
Strain and regional stress databases of active deformation patterns are largely available in the literature but are almost exclusively derived from earthquakes and geodetic data. However, in areas such as Italy, where the regional stress field has remained unchanged over the last few million years, the analysis of structural data relevant for seismogenic purposes can be extended at least to the overall Quaternary time interval. QUIN was born with this assumption. It is a “QUaternary fault strain INdicators database” designed to integrate, unify and elaborate published and new high-detailed geologic information on potentially seismogenic faults. It provides data on the location, attitude, kinematics, and deformation axes of Fault Striation Pairs (FSPs) measured on Quaternary faults, together with an original shapefile of the faults hosting the FSP. The first QUIN release provides data on FSP exposed along the intra-Apennine Quaternary extensional faults of Central Italy (Lavecchia et al., 2021). The second QUIN release will focus on the southern Apennines of Italy and Calabria. The two combined databases provide data on more than 7000 FSP Pairs surveyed in about 700 structural sites along the extent of Peninsular Italy for about 1000 km from northern Tuscany to southern Calabria. Up to now, the QUIN research project has involved CRUST researchers working in the PRIN Project MUSE-4D (UniCatania, UniChieti, UniPerugia) with colleagues from the University of London and Roma INGV. In the future, the QUIN project may be extended to other areas to integrate with geological data contemporary geometric and kinematic deformation patterns that might be scattered and incomplete whenever exclusively derived from earthquake data. Researchers interested in collaborating for future project extensions to other areas of the world are invited to contact us!I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
