Natural disasters as a source of entrepreneurial opportunity: Family business resilience after an earthquake

C Salvato, M Sargiacomo, MD Amore… - Strategic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary What type of firms are more likely to survive or even thrive in
disaster events such as earthquakes, wildfires, and the COVID‐19 pandemic? We …

The 2009 central Italy earthquake seen through 0.5 Myr-long tectonic history of the L'Aquila faults system

P Galli, B Giaccio, P Messina - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
On 6 April, 2009, a Mw 6.3 earthquake struck L'Aquila and dozens of neighbouring villages
(Abruzzo, central Italy) causing 308 deaths and with thousands injured. Within Italian …

Fault and basin depocentre migration over the last 2 Ma in the L'Aquila 2009 earthquake region, central Italian Apennines

B Giaccio, P Galli, P Messina, E Peronace… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Morphological, stratigraphical and structural investigations integrated with palaeomagnetic
and tephrostratigraphic studies and 40Ar/39Ar measurements allowed us to define the …

Empirical fragility curves for masonry buildings after the 2009 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake

C Del Gaudio, G De Martino, M Di Ludovico… - Bulletin of earthquake …, 2019 - Springer
This study focuses on the seismic vulnerability of masonry buildings damaged by the 2009
L'Aquila earthquake. A geo-referenced database of 32,520 masonry residential buildings …

Disaster governance and hybrid organizations: accounting, performance challenges and evacuee housing

M Sargiacomo, SP Walker - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how public/private hybrid and
ambiguous organizations played pivotal roles in a governmental programme of housing …

Advances and problems in understanding the seismic response of potentially unstable slopes

V Del Gaudio, J Wasowski - Engineering geology, 2011 - Elsevier
The influence of site effects on landslide triggering during earthquakes has been inferred in
several studies, but its evaluation is made difficult by the complexity of factors controlling the …

The Macroseismic Intensity Distribution of the 30 October 2016 Earthquake in Central Italy (Mw 6.6): Seismotectonic Implications

P Galli, S Castenetto, E Peronace - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The central Italy Apennines were rocket in 2016 by the strongest earthquakes of the
past 35 years. Two main shocks (Mw 6.2 and Mw 6.6) between the end of August and …

[HTML][HTML] Historical memory as an effective and useful Tool for proper land use planning: lessons learnt from some Italian cases

F Luino, FT Gizzi, W Palmieri, S Porfido, L Turconi - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Many Italian cities and towns have been affected by geological or geohydrological
processes. However, due to the loss of historical memory, lessons of the past have been …

Palaeoseismology of the L'Aquila faults (central Italy, 2009, Mw 6.3 earthquake): implications for active fault linkage

PAC Galli, B Giaccio, P Messina… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Urgent urban-planning problems related to the 2009 April, M w 6.3, L'Aquila earthquake
prompted immediate excavation of palaeoseismological trenches across the active faults …

Relationships between fault geometry, slip rate variability and earthquake recurrence in extensional settings

PA Cowie, GP Roberts, JM Bull… - Geophysical Journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Field observations and modelling indicate that elastic interaction between active faults can
lead to variations in earthquake recurrence intervals measured on timescales of 102-104 yr …