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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3407-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3407-2021
Research article
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10 Nov 2021
Research article |  | 10 Nov 2021

The mud volcanoes at Santa Barbara and Aragona (Sicily, Italy): a contribution to risk assessment

Alessandro Gattuso, Francesco Italiano, Giorgio Capasso, Antonino D'Alessandro, Fausto Grassa, Antonino Fabio Pisciotta, and Davide Romano

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Santa Barbara and Aragona are affected by mud volcanism with episodic hazardous paroxysm events. Two potentially hazardous paroxysm exposed surfaces of 0.12 and 0.20 km2 were elaborated with DSMs and with historical information on the paroxysms that occurred in the past. This paper, in the end, could be a useful tool for civil protection authorities in order to take appropriate risk mitigation measurements for exposed people and for monitoring activities.
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