The central Italy earthquake occurred on 24 August 2016 at 03:36 AM local time. The magnitude is listed as M6.0 by INGV and M6.2 by USGS. The Italy-US GEER team effort combines traditional reconnaissance activities of on-ground recording and mapping of field conditions, with advanced imaging and damage detection routines enabled by state-of-the-art geomatics technology. We describe preliminary findings useful for the broad technical community, emergency responders, and general public. These findings concern attributes of the causative fault system, surface fault rupture, recorded ground motions, landslides and rockfalls, damage to building structures and their spatial patterns, and damage to other types of structures, including bridges.

DIsaster RECovery Team of Politecnico di Torino Videos accompanying this report can be found on the GEER YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/4f1mv9PE85o?list=PLBfFfp09pyW5Z7j9ZsQXL9f2gya7IIzQW.

The models in the links below were developed using Acute3D by Bentley, which incorporates Structure from Motion Computer Vision:

Pescara del Tronto – Landslides, structural failures, exposed lifeline, retaining wall failures - http://prismweb.groups.et.byu.net/PL/App/#%2F

Rockfall model - http://prismweb.groups.et.byu.net/IRF/App/#%2F

Accumoli Landslide and Retaining Wall Failure - http://prismweb.groups.et.byu.net/IA/App/#%2F

Contributors

Stefano Aversa, Università degli studi di Napoli Parthenope; Francesca Bozzoni, Eucentre; Shideh Dashti, University of Colorado Boulder; Luigi Di Sarno, Maria Giovanna Durante, Armando L Simonelli, Augusto Penna, University of Sannio, Reluis Consortium; Sebastiano Foti, Filiberto Chiabrando, Nives Grasso, Vincenzo Di Pietra, Politecnico di Torino; Kevin Franke, Brandon Reimschiissel, Brigham Young University; Fabrizio Galadini, Emauela Falcucci, Stefano Gori, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV); Robert E Kayen, US Geological Survey (USGS); Tadahiro Kishida, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California, Berkeley; George Mylonakis, Elpida Katsiveli, University of Bristol, University of Patras; Alessandro Pagliaroli, Silvia Giallini University of Chieti-Pescara; Panagiotis Pelekis, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education Athens; Ioannis Psycharis, Elisavet Vintzilaiou, Michalis Fragiadakis, National Technical University of Athens; Giuseppe Scasserra, Filippo Santucci de Magistris, Massimina Castiglia, Tony Fierro, Luciano Mignelli, University of Molise; Anastasios Sextos, Nicholas Alexander, Raffaele De Risi, University of Bristol; Stefania Sica, Michele Mucciacciaro, University of Sannio; Francesco Silvestri, Anna d’Onofrio, Anna Chiaradonna, Filomena De Silva, University of Naples Federico II; Paolo Tommasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Giuseppe Tropeano, University of Cagliari; Paolo Zimmaro, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Sponsors

National Science Foundation Grant No. CMMI-126641, B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA, NSF I/UCRC Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Project BYU13-03, Italian Geotec Consortium ReLUIS (Network of Italian Laboratories of Earthquake Engineering) at the UnEUcentre (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering; Pavia, Italy).