Hazardous setting case study

Italy:

Location: Italy, Europe.

High risk of earthquakes: fault lines run from north to south and east to west across the centre.

Margin: destructive plate margin between the Eurasian and African plates.

Earthquakes are common:

• 3 with 6.4 magnitude in Assisi in 1997.

• 6.3 magnitude struck L’Aquila in April 2009.

• Many hit Amatrice from August to October in 2016.

L’Aquila: caused…