Investigation of pre-1700 Earthquakes Between the Adda and the Middle Adige River Basins (Southern Alps) - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 118

The completeness assessment, performed by the MPS Working Gruoup (2004)
in the frame of the evaluation of seismic hazard of Italy, concluded that in the study
area, with the exclusion of Valtellina and Alto Adige areas, Mw 5 could be

considered as complete after 1700 according to the statistical procedure (Albarello
et al., 2001) and after 1500 according to the historical procedure (Stucchi et al.,
2004). Actually, as a matter of fact the analysis of the seismic histories of the main
localities (Fig. 16) do not show large, overall chronological gaps. It seems then

≥ 5 .

Fig. 16 Seismic histories of the main localities in the study area (from DBMI04, Stucchi et al.,
2007)