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Experiences of tunnels subject to earthquake in central Italy
Published in Daniele Peila, Giulia Viggiani, Tarcisio Celestino, Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art, 2020
A. Micheli, L. Cedrone, A. Andreacchio, S. Pelizza
Italy is located on the convergent boundary between two tectonic plates, the African one and the Eurasian one, whose collision causes energy accumulation and deformation, which are released by earthquakes. Therefore, Italy is one of the countries, into the Mediterranean basin,with greatest seismic hazard.
Experiences of tunnels subject to earthquake in central Italy
Published in Daniele Peila, Giulia Viggiani, Tarcisio Celestino, Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art, 2019
A. Micheli, L. Cedrone, A. Andreacchio, S. Pelizza
Italy is located on the convergent boundary between two tectonic plates, the African one and the Eurasian one, whose collision causes energy accumulation and deformation, which are released by earthquakes. Therefore, Italy is one of the countries, into the Mediterranean basin,with greatest seismic hazard.
Scientific ocean drilling in the Australasian region: a review
Published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2022
There have been many ocean drilling expeditions in the Southwest Pacific (Figure 1). For convenience we group in this section those that were essentially on the Australian Plate or a nearby microplate. We group those that were on the Pacific Plate in the following section. Our usage is pragmatic with further geographical/geological subdivisions made to suit our purpose. Detailed terminology for plate boundaries is set out by Bird (2003), with classification into one of seven types: continental convergence zone, continental transform fault, continental rift, oceanic spreading ridge, oceanic transform fault, oceanic convergent boundary and subduction zone. The nature of plate boundaries is clearly important for understanding tectonically active areas through time and has been particularly complex in this region. The observation by Dewey (1975) is particularly apt for the Southwest Pacific region that plate boundaries are ephemeral; they lengthen, shorten, migrate with respect to one another, and are created and destroyed.