EGU24-18752, updated on 11 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18752
EGU General Assembly 2024
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The new earthquake catalog of the Gargano (Southern Italy) OTRIONS seismic network.

Andrea Pio Ferreri1, Annalisa Romeo1, Rossella Giannuzzi1, Gianpaolo Cecere2, Salvatore de Lorenzo1, Luigi Falco2, Marilena Filippucci1, Maddalena Michele2, Giulio Selvaggi2, and Andrea Tallarico1
Andrea Pio Ferreri et al.
  • 1Università degli studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Italy (andrea.ferreri@uniba.it)
  • 2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

The OTRIONS seismic network (University of Bari Aldo Moro, 2013, FDSN code OT) is a local network installed in the Apulia region (Southern Italy) with the aim of monitoring the seismicity of the Gargano area (Northern Apulia) and the Salento area (Southern Apulia). OT network is managed by the University of Bari Aldo Moro (UniBa) and by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). It started to operate in 2013 and in 2019 the recording stations migrated to EIDA (all details can be found in Filippucci et al., 2021a). In 2021 a first database was collected, with the event detection achieved both manually and automatically with SeisComP3 (Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam), and was released (Filippucci et al., 2021a; Filippucci et al., 2021b).

Now, after ten years of operations, we focus on the microseismicity of the Gargano area with the aim of collecting a new seismic database for the period from April 2013 to December 2022, by using a recently acquired software, CASP (Complete Automatic Seismic Processor), for the automatic detection, picking and location of seismic events (Scafidi et al., 2019). The CASP software is installed on a remote server implemented by RECAS-Bari, the computational infrastructure of INFN and UniBa.

Through an appropriate parameter setting, we adapted CASP and NonLinLoc (Lomax et al., 2000) to the Gargano area and to the seismic stations available, both OT and INGV. We used the 1D velocity model of Gargano (de Lorenzo et al., 2017).

The recorded seismic events were organized in two catalogs: the first one is the automatic catalog, obtained from the automatic locations of CASP; the second one is the manual catalog, obtained through a manual revision of P and S waves arrival times. To evaluate the reliability of CASP, a comparison between the automatic and manual catalog was performed.

From a comparison of the manual catalog with the already released catalog of the Gargano seismicity (Filippucci et al., 2021b), the number of events detected by CASP increased a lot. Furthermore, the results show that the choice of the CASP parameters allows us to lower the minimum magnitude threshold of the recorded microseismicity in the Gargano area. Preliminary analysis of the earthquakes foci shows that the seismicity pattern retrace, substancially, the same discussed in the work of Miccolis et al., 2021.

How to cite: Ferreri, A. P., Romeo, A., Giannuzzi, R., Cecere, G., de Lorenzo, S., Falco, L., Filippucci, M., Michele, M., Selvaggi, G., and Tallarico, A.: The new earthquake catalog of the Gargano (Southern Italy) OTRIONS seismic network., EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-18752, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18752, 2024.