EGU24-5490, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5490
EGU General Assembly 2024
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The effect of seismic swarms on short-term seismic hazard and Gutenberg-Richter b-value temporal variation. Examples from Central Italy seismic activity durign October-November 2023.

Ilaria Spassiani and Matteo Taroni
Ilaria Spassiani and Matteo Taroni
  • Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sora (FR), Italy (ilaria.spassiani@ingv.it)

Seismic hazard can be quantified by using probabilities. Modern seismic forecasting models, such as Operational Earthquake Forecasting (OEF) systems, allow us to quantify short-term variations of such probabilities. These probabilities change indeed with time and space, in particular after strong seismic events. However, the short-term seismic hazard could also change during seismic swarms, e.g. sequences with several small/medium size events. The goal of this work is to quantify these changes by both using the Italian OEF system, and estimating the variations of the b-value parameter in Gutenberg-Richter frequency-magnitude distribution. We focus our attention on three seismic swarms that occurred in Central Italy during October-November 2023. Our results indicate that the short-term variations of seismic hazard are limited, less than an order of magnitude. The b-value variations are also not significant. Our conclusion is then that, with the currently available models and catalogs, occurrence of seismic swarms does not significantly affect the short-term seismic hazard.

How to cite: Spassiani, I. and Taroni, M.: The effect of seismic swarms on short-term seismic hazard and Gutenberg-Richter b-value temporal variation. Examples from Central Italy seismic activity durign October-November 2023., EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-5490, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5490, 2024.

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