Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
NHESS
Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1007-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1007-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
Research article
 | 
06 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 06 Mar 2023

Inferring the depth and magnitude of pre-instrumental earthquakes from intensity attenuation curves

Paola Sbarra, Pierfrancesco Burrato, Valerio De Rubeis, Patrizia Tosi, Gianluca Valensise, Roberto Vallone, and Paola Vannoli

Viewed

Total article views: 3,726 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total Supplement BibTeX EndNote
2,669 951 106 3,726 215 127 132
  • HTML: 2,669
  • PDF: 951
  • XML: 106
  • Total: 3,726
  • Supplement: 215
  • BibTeX: 127
  • EndNote: 132
Views and downloads (calculated since 17 Feb 2022)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 17 Feb 2022)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 3,726 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 3,556 with geography defined and 170 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 
Latest update: 26 Nov 2025
Download
Short summary
Earthquakes are fundamental for understanding how the earth works and for assessing seismic risk. We can easily measure the magnitude and depth of today's earthquakes, but can we also do it for pre-instrumental ones? We did it by analyzing the decay of earthquake effects (on buildings, people, and objects) with epicentral distance. Our results may help derive data that would be impossible to obtain otherwise, for any country where the earthquake history extends for centuries, such as Italy.
Read more
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint