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Giusy Lavecchia is affiliated with the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research primarily focuses on earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, seismology and earthquake studies, and geological modeling and analysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lavecchia include:

  • Fault Pattern and Seismotectonic Style of the Campania - Lucania 1980 Earthquake (Mw 6.9, Southern Italy): New Multidisciplinary Constraints, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • QUaternary fault strain INdicators database - QUIN 1.0 - first release from the Apennines of central Italy, 2022, Scientific Data
  • High-resolution surface faulting from the 1983 Idaho Lost River Fault Mw 6.9 earthquake and previous events, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Complex trans-ridge normal faults controlling large earthquakes, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Integrating Post-Processing Kinematic (PPK)-Structure-from-Motion (SfM) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Photogrammetry and Digital Field Mapping for Structural Geological Analysis, 2022, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Lavecchia has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Francesco Brozzetti
  • Rita de Nardis
  • Daniele Cirillo
  • Simone Bello
  • Federica Ferrarini

Their publications appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Lavecchia's work spans several subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence, geochemistry and petrology, geology, and aerospace engineering. The significant emphasis on geophysics highlights the scientist's focus on understanding earth processes at a physical level.

Best Publications

  • Defining a model of 3D seismogenic sources for Seismic Hazard Assessment applications: The case of central Apennines (Italy)

    Paolo Boncio;Giusy Lavecchia;Bruno Pace

  • Seismotectonic zoning in east-central Italy deduced from an analysis of the Neogene to present deformations and related stress fields

    Giusy Lavecchia;Francesco Brozzetti;Massimiliano Barchi;Marco Menichetti

  • The tyrrhenian-apennines system: structural setting and seismotectogenesis

    Giusy Lavecchia

  • Architecture and seismotectonics of a regional low‐angle normal fault zone in central Italy

    Paolo Boncio;Francesco Brozzetti;Giusy Lavecchia

  • Layered Seismogenic Source Model and Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Analyses in Central Italy

    Bruno Pace;Laura Peruzza;Giusy Lavecchia;Paolo Boncio

  • Coseismic ground deformation of the 6 April 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (central Italy, Mw6.3)

    P. Boncio;A. Pizzi;F. Brozzetti;G. Pomposo

  • A structural model for active extension in Central Italy

    Paolo Boncio;Giusy Lavecchia

  • Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy

    R. Civico;S. Pucci;F. Villani;L. Pizzimenti

  • Sintesi delle conoscenze sulle faglie attive in Italia Centrale: parametrizzazione ai fini della caratterizzazione della pericolosità sismica

    M. Barchi;F. Galadini;G. Lavecchia;P. Messina

  • Active thrusting as a possible seismogenic source in Sicily (Southern Italy): Some insights from integrated structural–kinematic and seismological data

    Giusy Lavecchia;Federica Ferrarini;Rita de Nardis;Francesco Visini

  • Ground deformation and source geometry of the 24 August 2016 Amatrice earthquake (Central Italy) investigated through analytical and numerical modeling of DInSAR measurements and structural-geological data

    G. Lavecchia;R. Castaldo;R. de Nardis;V. De Novellis

  • The tectonic significance of Italian magmatism: an alternative view to the popular interpretation

    Giusy Lavecchia;Francesco Stoppa

  • A database of the coseismic effects following the 30 October 2016 Norcia earthquake in Central Italy.

    Fabio Villani;Riccardo Civico;Stefano Pucci;Luca Pizzimenti

  • A lithospheric-scale seismogenic thrust in central Italy

    Giusy Lavecchia;Paolo Boncio;Nicola Creati

  • High-Resolution Field Mapping and Analysis of the August-October 2016 Coseismic Surface Faulting (Central Italy Earthquakes): Slip Distribution, Parameterization, and Comparison With Global Earthquakes

    F. Brozzetti;P. Boncio;D. Cirillo;F. Ferrarini

  • Seismogenesis in Central Apennines, Italy: an integrated analysis of minor earthquake sequences and structural data in the Amatrice-Campotosto area

    Paolo Boncio;Giuseppina Lavecchia;Giuliano Milana;Barbara Rozzi

  • Is There a Mantle Plume Below Italy

    Keith Bell;Francesca Castorina;Giusy Lavecchia;Gianluigi Rosatelli

  • Late Pleistocene ultra-alkaline magmatic activity in the Umbria-Latium region (Italy): An overview

    Francesco Stoppa;Giusy Lavecchia

  • The Umbria-Marche arcuate fold belt (Italy)

    Giusy Lavecchia;Giorgio Minelli;Giampaolo Pialli

  • The 1984 Abruzzo earthquake (Italy): an example of seismogenic process controlled by interaction between differently oriented synkinematic faults

    B. Pace;P. Boncio;G. Lavecchia

  • Present activity and seismogenic potential of a low-angle normal fault system (Città di Castello, Italy): Constraints from surface geology, seismic reflection data and seismicity

    Francesco Brozzetti;Paolo Boncio;Giusy Lavecchia;Bruno Pace

  • From surface geology to aftershock analysis: Constraints on the geometry of the L’Aquila 2009 seismogenic fault system

    Giusy Lavecchia;Federica Ferrarini;Francesco Brozzetti;Rita De Nardis

  • Layered seismogenic source model and probabilistic seismic-hazard analyses in

    B Pace;L. Peruzza;G. Lavecchia;P. Boncio

Frequent Co-Authors

J Ramón Arrowsmith
J Ramón Arrowsmith Arizona State University
Francesco Stoppa
Francesco Stoppa University of Chieti-Pescara
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi University of Perugia
Aldo Zollo
Aldo Zollo University of Naples Federico II
Keith Bell
Keith Bell Carleton University
Peter Suhadolc
Peter Suhadolc University of Trieste
Riccardo Lanari
Riccardo Lanari National Research Council (CNR)
Francesco Casu
Francesco Casu National Research Council (CNR)
Antonio Pepe
Antonio Pepe National Research Council (CNR)
Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR

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