2002 Molise earthquake

2002 Molise earthquake

earthquake
title= 2002 Molise earthquake
date= October 31, 2002



magnitude = 5.9 Mw
countries affected = ITA
casualties = 28 killed|
The 2002 Molise earthquake was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that hit the Italian regions of Molise and Puglia on October 31 2002 at 10:32:58 (UTC). The depth of the earthquake was 10.0 km (6.2 miles).

Most of the victims of the earthquake occurred in a school collapse in the town of San Giuliano di Puglia, in which 26 of the 51 pupils died, together with one of their teachers. In particular, none of the 9 boys of the 4th class (born in 1996) survived.

Tectonics

According to the United States Geological Survey: [ [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2002/uskyar/ Magnitude 5.9 Southern Italy ] ]

Preliminary moment-tensor solutions for this earthquake imply that the shock occurred as the result of movement on a strike-slip fault. The fault would be either a north-south, left-lateral fault or an east-west, right-lateral fault. Some geologists have hypothesized that a major component of the relative motion between the African plate and Eurasian plate is accommodated on a north-south, left-lateral, boundary that passes near the epicenter of the earthquake.

The boundary is thought to accommodate slip of 5 - 10 mm/ year. The preliminary focal-mechanisms are consistent with this model. It is noteworthy, however, that many destructive earthquakes in Italy occur as the result of deformation of the earth's crust that is not related in a simple way to the present-day movements of the African and Eurasian plates. Until detailed studies of this earthquake are completed, hypotheses on the earthquake's relationship to large-scale plate-tectonic processes are speculative.

Similar earthquakes

*2008 Lake Kivu earthquake

References

External links

* [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2002/uskyar/ USGS - Magnitude 5.9 Southern Italy]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2382131.stm In pictures: Italy school tragedy] (BBC)


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