Conveners:
Marco Francescone (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Giulia Patricelli (Università di Udine)
Stefano Gori (INGV, Roma)
Alberto Pizzi (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Seismic risk mitigation relies on a comprehensive understanding of active and capable faults, their surface and subsurface expression, and their role as seismic sources. This session brings together contributions on paleoseismology, active tectonics, fault rupture hazard, seismic source characterization, and seismic risk assessment, with direct implications for seismic microzonation studies. We welcome studies reconstructing past earthquake histories through paleoseismological, stratigraphic, geomorphological, and archaeoseismological investigations, aimed at constraining fault activity, rupture behavior, recurrence intervals, and earthquake magnitude. Particular emphasis is placed on how the fault will rupture. Among the meanings of Seismic Microzonation guidelines, contributions addressing geometry, kinematics, and mechanics of active faults, multi-fault systems, seismic sources, integrating geological, high-resolution image interpretation, geophysical, geodetic, and seismological data, are crucial and strongly encouraged. The session aims to foster dialogue between fundamental research and applied methodologies, highlighting recent advances and emerging challenges in seismic hazard and risk assessment. Early Career Researchers (ECR) are especially encouraged to participate, and the session is intended as an inclusive forum for discussion, networking, and visibility of innovative research.