Dear Participant, we are very happy to welcome you in Pescina (Abruzzi, Italy) for the 6th INQUA International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology (“6th PATA Days”). In the last six years, INQUA TERPRO Focus Group on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics (PALACTE), supported very successful Workshops annually held in Europe and Overseas, the last in Korea in 2014. The 6th joint meeting locates in the central Apennines, one of the most tectonically active area in the Mediterranean. In fact, the scientific sessions will be attended in the Pescina village that was completely destroyed by the 1915 M7 Fucino earthquake, one of the most devastating earthquakes ever occurred in Italy. This event is also one of the first to be well documented in the Mediterranean,...