Preliminary Report on the Seismological and Geotechnical Aspects of the

April 6 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake in Central Italy

Contributing Authors:
Giuseppe Di Capua, INGV Rome, Italy
Robert E. Kayen, USGS Menlo Park, USA
D. Scott Kieffer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Edward Button, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Giovanna Biscontin, Texas A&M University, USA
Giuseppe Scasserra and Giuseppe Lanzo, University of Rome, Italy
Paolo Tommasi and Alessandro Pagliaroli, CNR-IGAG, Rome, Italy
Francesco Silvestri and Anna d'Onofrio, University of Naples, Italy
Crescenzo Violante, Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Naples, Italy
Armando Lucio Simonelli, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Rodolfo Puglia, INGV, Milan, Italy
George Mylonakis, George Athanasopoulos, and Vasileios Vlachakis, University of Patras, Greece

Editor and Contributing Author:
Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Report for Web Dissemination
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Reconnaissance
www.geerassociation.org
GEER Association Report No. GEER-016

Version 2. September 4, 2009

Reconnaissance Report (PDF)*

*Note: Reconnaisance Report is a 24MB file.

 

Web Report Table of Contents:

1.0. Introduction

2.0. Earthquake Setting and Source Characteristics

3.0. Ground Motion

4.0. Damage Patterns

5.0. Ground Failure

6.0. Performance of Dams and Earth Retaining Structures

References

Acknowledgments