Documenting seismogenic faults with public hydrocarbon exploration data in Italy

The geological characterization of potential seismogenic faults needs data capableof illuminating the Earth'ssubsurface at the depth where larger earthquakes nucleate. Among the most powerful datawith this capability are thosecollected for hydrocarbon exploration, i.e., seismic reflection profilesand well logs, and theirderived data products.The scope of this report is to provide a preliminary estimateof the potential to document seismogenic faults with publicly available hydrocarbonexplorationdatain Italy.To this end, the ViDEPI project has provided access to such data since 2009,and the DISS provides location and geophysical characterization of seismogenic faults in the Italian territory and surrounding regions.Here, we performa spatial intersection of the records stored in thesetwo databasesto establish the common data coverageand the potential of documenting seismogenic faults by exploiting the wealth of data publicly provided by ViDEPIto promote therevision, update, or upgradeof existing record of the DISS and fosterthe positive identification of new ones.Results show that the ViDEPI database can help document mostof the existing DISS records