The Italian Catalogue of Earthquake Environmental Effects: a contribute to seismic hazard assessment through the ESI intensity scale

Earthquake, environmental effects (EEEs) are a component of seismic hazard in addition to vibratory ground motion. Their primary role in the scenario of damage has been clearly pointed out by recent strong seismic events. The scientific interest of EEEs has increased in the last twenty years, in the frame of the INQUA TERPRO "Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics" Focus Group: i) in 2007 it was published the ESI intensity scale, that evaluates epicentral and local intensity based only on EEEs; ii) in 2011 it was launched the infrastructure of the EEE Catalogue, a free accessible database designed to collect the characteristics of EEEs worldwide occurred. This note is focused on the Italian Catalogue of EEEs, which collects information about EEEs induced by 39 strong earthquakes (modern, historical and paleo) occurred in the Italian territory. These data allow to identify the areas more exposed to the occurrence of EEEs and to evaluate the seismic intensity through the ESI sc ale