Marco Francescone
@geo-mf.bsky.social
Earthquake Geology, Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Local Seismic Hazard. Currently, my research is focused on extensional active fault systems and related surface hazard ruptures @ Chieti University ITALY 🇮🇹
New Open Access article on @ElsevierConnect #EngineeringGeology! How to reconstruct deep bedrock in seismically active basins? Integrated HVSR, passive seismic arrays and survey logs to model the Sulmona basin (up to 900m of sediments!). đź”— Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
The Papatea Fault, a previously unmapped oblique active fault that ruptured violently during the magnitude 7.8 KaikĹŤura earthquake in New Zealand on. It produced a vertical surface displacement of up to 9.5 meters #activefaults
Forces of nature. The thread and the needle: The structure symbolizes the act of “sewing together” the crack in the ground created by the paleo-earthquakes exactly above an active fault scarp. Symbol of the people efforts to tame nature and protect themselves from natural events. #wellingtonfault
We warmly invite you to contribute to Session P49 — Active and Capable Faults: Investigations and Perspectives for Seismic Microzonation Studies at the Congress of the Italian Geological Society (SGI-SIMP) (Padova, 15–17 September 2026). Submit your abstract at: www.geoscienze.org/557/info-nor...
Vertical surface motions in Europe. I love the Copernicus EGMS! Scandinavia goes up due to postglacial rebound. Po Plain sinks because of sediment input, compaction, and flexure caused by Apennines and Alps. egms.land.copernicus.eu
If you're in N. Nevada you probably felt or at least heard about the magnitude 5.7 earthquake on Monday evening. Check out our video summary of the event and aftershocks on our Instagram: tinyurl.com/mrymdky9
nvseismolab on Instagram: "A quick overview of the magnitude 5.7 Earthquake near Lahontan Reservoir on Monday April 13th.#nevada #earthquakes #seismology #sci…"
A quick overview of the magnitude 5.7 Earthquake near Lahontan Reservoir on Monday April 13th.#nevada #earthquakes #seismology #science
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Here I wrote about the PATA Days meeting on active tectonics, and about the field trips I led in Guatemala.
paleoseismicity.org@paleoseismicity.bsky.social · 4mo agoReport: Those were the PATA Days 2026 in Guatemala paleoseismicity.org/those-were-t...
The pre-meeting field trip of the 2026 PATA Days starts from Antigua Guatemala with 40+ people from 15 countries. Three days of paleoseismology, archaeoseismology, and active faults ahead of us.
#patadays Day 3. Another spectacular evidence of Motagua fault, in a complex structural bending at La Laguna. Trastensive cinematic, well expressed in a paleoseismological trench.
#patadays in Guatemala. Day 1 of the pre-congress field trip. Paleoseismological trench of 1976 left lateral strike slip of Motagua fault.
If you were far away from the Earth, on a line that intersects the centers of the Sun and the Earth, here's the sunlit half of the Earth you would be seeing during the June and December solstices. Two very different views of Earth! 🧪 denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/2... #solstice #astronomy #animation
