Department of Earth Sciences

Coseismic throw variation across along-strike bends on active normal faults: implications for displacement versus length scaling of earthquake ruptures (2018)
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Iezzi, F., Mildon, Z., Walker, J. F., Roberts, G., Goodall, H., Wilkinson, M., & Robertson, J. (2018). Coseismic throw variation across along-strike bends on active normal faults: implications for displacement versus length scaling of earthquake ruptures. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 123(11), 9817-9841. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016732

Fault bends, and associated changes in fault dip, play a key role in explaining the scatter in maximum offset versus surface rupture length fault scaling relationships. Detailed field measurements of the fault geometry and magnitude of slip in the 20... Read More about Coseismic throw variation across along-strike bends on active normal faults: implications for displacement versus length scaling of earthquake ruptures.

Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence (2018)
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Walters, R., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., Craig, T., McCaffrey, K., Wilkinson, M., …Vittori, E. (2018). Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.043

Large continental earthquakes necessarily involve failure of multiple faults or segments. But these same critically-stressed systems sometimes fail in drawn-out sequences of smaller earthquakes over days or years instead. These two modes of failure h... Read More about Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence.

A database of the coseismic effects following the 30 October 2016 Norcia earthquake in Central Italy (2018)
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Villani, F., Civico, R., Pucci, S., Pizzimenti, L., Nappi, R., De Martini, P. M., …Zambrano, M. (2018). A database of the coseismic effects following the 30 October 2016 Norcia earthquake in Central Italy. Scientific Data, 5, Article 180049. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.49

We provide a database of the coseismic geological surface effects following the Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake that hit central Italy on 30 October 2016. This was one of the strongest seismic events to occur in Europe in the past thirty years, causing comp... Read More about A database of the coseismic effects following the 30 October 2016 Norcia earthquake in Central Italy.

Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy (2018)
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Civico, R., Pucci, S., Villani, F., Pizzimenti, L., De Martini, P., Nappi, R., …Group, T. O. E. W. (2018). Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy. Journal of Maps, 14(2), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1441756

We present a 1:25,000 scale map of the coseismic surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia normal-faulting earthquake, central Italy. Detailed rupture mapping is based on almost 11,000 oblique photographs taken from helicopter flig... Read More about Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy.

Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS (2017)
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Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Roberts, G., Holdsworth, R., Gregory, L., …Iezzi, F. (2017). Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 4612. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04917-w

The temporal evolution of slip on surface ruptures during an earthquake is important for assessing fault displacement, defining seismic hazard and for predicting ground motion. However, measurements of near-field surface displacement at high temporal... Read More about Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS.

Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults (2017)
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Cowie, P., Phillips, R., Roberts, G., McCaffrey, K., Zijerveld, L., Gregory, L., …Wilkinson, M. (2017). Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 44858. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44858

Many areas of the Earth’s crust deform by distributed extensional faulting and complex fault interactions are often observed. Geodetic data generally indicate a simpler picture of continuum deformation over decades but relating this behaviour to eart... Read More about Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults.

Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results (2016)
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Livio, F., Michetti, A., Vittori, E., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., Piccardi, L., …Wilkinson, M. (2016). Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results. Annals of geophysics, 59(Fast Track 5), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-7197

We present some preliminary results on the mapping of coseismically-induced ground ruptures following the Aug. 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0). The seismogenic source, as highlighted by InSAR and seismological data, ruptured across two ad... Read More about Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results.

A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition (2016)
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Wilkinson, M., Jones, R., Woods, C., Gilment, S., McCaffrey, K., Kokkalas, S., & Long, J. (2016). A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition. Geosphere, 12(6), 1865-1880. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01342.1

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has been used extensively in Earth Science for acquisition of digital outcrop data over the past decade. Structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry has recently emerged as an alternative and competing technology. The... Read More about A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition.

Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release (2014)
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Wilkinson, M., Roberts, G., McCaffrey, K., Cowie, P., Faure Walker, J., Papanikolaou, I., …Watson, Z. (2015). Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release. Geomorphology, 237, 130-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.026

Surface slip distributions for an active normal fault in central Italy have been measured using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), in order to assess the impact of changes in fault orientation and kinematics when modelling subsurface slip distribution... Read More about Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release.

The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning (2014)
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Bubeck, A., Wilkinson, M., Roberts, G., Cowie, P., McCaffrey, K., Phillips, R., & Sammonds, P. (2015). The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning. Geomorphology, 237, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.011

Using combined datasets from ground penetrating radar (GPR) and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) we document the variety of tectono-geomorphic features that contribute to the morphology of bedrock scarps associated with active extensional faulting in... Read More about The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning.

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