Giovanni Diaferia, PhD

Experience

Education

Outreach

“Earthquake rumbles the gates of Rome” - TEMBLOR

“Mt. Etna eruption likely reactivated Fiandaca Fault” - TEMBLOR

“The 14 August 2018 M=4.6 southern Italy quake: Why prevention is fundamental in areas of moderate seismic risk” - TEMBLOR

“Large earthquakes could be linked to a newly-imaged fault” - TEMBLOR

Publications

Diaferia, G., Giunchi, C., Olivieri, M., Molinari, I,...& Trozzo, L. (2024). Characterization of the seismic signature of a wind park in Sardinia (Italy) near the candidate site for Einstein Telescope (ET), the third-generation gravitational wave detector Geophysical Journal International [under review]

Diaferia, G., Valoroso, L., Improta, L., Piccinini, D. (2023). A new high-resolution seismic catalog for the Southern Apennines (Italy) built through template-matchings. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(3), p.e2023GC011160

Di Luccio, F., Palano, M., Chiodini, G., Cucci, L., Piromallo, C., Sparacino, F., ... & Zuccarello, L. (2022). Geodynamics, geophysical and geochemical observations, and the role of CO2 degassing in the Apennines. Earth-Science Reviews, 104236.

Agius, M. R., Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Kästle, E. D., Cammarano, F., Faccenna, C., ... & van der Meijde, M. (2022) Shear‐Velocity Structure and Dynamics Beneath the Sicily Channel and Surrounding Regions of the Central Mediterranean Inferred From Seismic Surface Waves. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(10), e2022GC010394.

Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., El‐Sharkawy, A., Cammarano, F., van Der Meijde, M., Meier, T., & Boschi, L. (2022). Surface‐Wave Tomography of the Central‐Western Mediterranean: New Insights Into the Liguro‐Provençal and Tyrrhenian Basins Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(3), e2021JB023267.

Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Boschi, L., & Cammarano, F. (2020). Arrival-angle effects on two-receiver measurements of phase velocity. Geophysical Journal International, 220(3), 1838-1844.

Magrini, F., Diaferia, G., Fadel, I., Cammarano, F., van der Meijde, M., & Boschi, L. (2020). 3-D shear wave velocity model of the lithosphere below the Sardinia–Corsica continental block based on Rayleigh-wave phase velocities. Geophysical journal international, 220(3), 2119-2130.

Diaferia, G., Cammarano, F., & Faccenna, C. (2019). hermal structure of a vanishing subduction system: An example of seismically-derived crustal temperature along the Italian peninsula. Geophysical Journal International, 219(1), 239-247.

Diaferia, G., Cammarano, F., Piana Agostinetti, N., Gao, C., Lekic, V., Molinari, I., & Boschi, L. (2019). Inferring crustal temperatures beneath Italy from joint inversion of receiver functions and surface waves Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(8), 8771-8785.

Diaferia, G., & Cammarano, F. (2017). Seismic signature of the continental crust: What thermodynamics says. An example from the Italian peninsula Tectonics, 36(12), 3192-3208.