The PMO-GATE scientists Federico da Col and Flavio Accaino (OSG) and their colleagues Gualtiero Böhm and Fabio Meneghini published the scientific paper " Analysis of the Seismic Properties for Engineering Purposes of the Shallow Subsurface: Two Case Studies from Italy and Croatia" on the international, peer-reviewed, open access journal Applied Sciences.

The paper, published in the Special Issue "Natural-Hazards Risk Assessment for Disaster Mitigation", presents two case studies of the application of seismic surveys to estimate the elastic properties of soil and rock in the shallow subsurface. The two sites present very different geological characteristics. The first test site is a town on the Croatian coast, not far from the city of Split, built on hard rock, where we acquired three seismic lines. The second site is located in the outskirts of the city of Ferrara, in Italy, in an alluvial plain, where two lines were acquired.

The study allowed us to compute not only basic engineering parameters such as the equivalent shear-wave velocity of the first 30 m of subsurface (VS30) from the SH profiles but also other useful parameters such as the VP/VS and estimate the anisotropy of the medium thanks to the VSV/VSH.

Given the level of detail of the results and their engineering value, we conclude that the method of investigation applied in the two test sites is a valuable tool for characterizing the shallow subsurface.

The scienfitic paper is available at:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/9/4535

The special issue "Natural-Hazards Risk Assessment for Disaster Mitigation" is available at:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/nhra_disaster_mitigation

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