On 21 August 2017, a shallow earthquake of Md 4.0 struck the Casamicciola Terme village in the north of Ischia volcanic island (Italy). The earthquake has the typical characteristics of volcano tectonic events recorded at active volcanoes and occurred along the EW normal system fault bounding the northern slope of Mt. Epomeo. The epicentral area has been repeatedly damaged in the last three centuries (1796, 1828, 1881, 1883) [Alessio et al., 1996; Carlino et al., 2011; Cubellis and Luongo, 1998]. In this work, we present a collection of pictures showing the geological effects produced on either the natural or the built environment by the Casamicciola earthquake. Most of the coseismic geologic effects were observed along the EW piedmont belt of Mt. Epomeo, which extends for about 2 km...
Published: 2019-10-25