The Arquata and Montegallo (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) Temporary Network, 2016-2017 Central Italy seismic sequence , 2012-05-20 02:03

SCIENTIFIC STAFF: Enrico Priolo, Carla Barnaba, Giovanna Laurenzano, Michele Bertoni, PierLuigi Bragato, Paolo Comelli, Marco Garbin
RESPONSIBLE SCIENTIST: Enrico Priolo
Centro Ricerche Sismologiche, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Cussignacco (UD) e Sgonico (TS)

The Arquata and Montegallo Temporary network was installed by OGS after the Mw 6.0 and Mw 5.4 earthquakes which struck Central Italy on August 24, 2016.

A total of 13 sites were deployed in the area struck by the earthquake. The equipment consisted basically of a 1 Hz three-component velocimetric sensor (Lennartz 3Dlite) possibly buried in the soil, a datalogger set for continuous data acquisition with a sample rate of 100 Hz, a GPS antenna and a battery connected to photovoltaic panels when power supply was not available. Five stations were equipped also with a strong-motion sensor: two of them with an Episensor accelerometer, the other three with a Nanometrics TitanXT strong motion accelerograph -a 6-channel model that incorporates the TXT-3 accelerometer- with real-time data transmission devices.


Figure 1. Maps of the temporary seismometric network of Arquata and Montegallo.