Special Issue "The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy Earthquake: Insights and Reviews 40 Years Later"

The November 23rd, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania, Southern Italy earthquake: insights and reviews 40 years later. Soon, 40 years will have passed since the earthquake that struck Irpinia-Lucania (Southern Italy) on 23 November 1980 (MS 6,9 I Max X MCS). This earthquake, besides being remembered as the most devastating seismic event in Italy in terms of loss of human life and destruction of cultural heritage in the last 100 years, is still considered to be a key event for the study of seismicity in Italy, marking the development of modern seismology, quaternary geology, and active tectonic studies, including the growth of the emerging methodology of paleoseismology in Italy. In this Special Issue, we want to collect key contributions that will help the scientific community to update the results obtained from the study of this earthquake after 40 years. In fact, the time has come to reconsider the many, still open, fundamental research issues so richly illustrated during the Irpinia-Lucania event. Our goal is to gather several contributions from researchers with different expertise, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach that highlights the most important aspects of the earthquake from a seismological and geological point of view, without neglecting the reconstruction of cultural heritage, the resilience of the population, and the socioeconomic development of the internal areas of the Southern Apennines after the earthquake. No doubt, lessons learned from the Irpinia-Lucania event are relevant at the local level, for the whole Mediterranean region, and in similar seismotectonic and cultural environments around the world.