Broad-band ground motion simulations in the Messina Straits area (Southern Italy)

Walter Imperatori (ETHZ), Dr. P. Martin Mai, (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

In this project we focus on the Messina Straits area (southern Italy) earthquake (Mw 7.1) that struck the area about one century ago (see figure below). The purpose of this study is to investigate the source and ground motion characteristics of this earthquake in order to predict variability of ground shaking levels for future events in this area of study. For that we need to perform hundreds of simulations accounting for realistic sources and available velocity models, that requires accurate and efficient numerical techniques and powerful computational resources.

_{Figure: Peak ground acceleration values (cm/s²) for one of our scenario models.}