Tectonics and seismotectonics of high Dragone valley between Piandelagotti and Montefiorino villages (Northern Apennines, Italy).
[En] small seismic sequence in the high Modena Apennines (Sant’Anna Pelago area) occurred in the 2018-2019 period with a main earthquake of MW 3.6 on July 1, 2018. The existent geological literature does not suggest the presence of a Quaternary active fault that can explain this seismic sequence. Small earthquakes are related to the same seismogenic process of strong earthquakes and, generally, earthquakes are generated by minor structures associated with regionally important faults, which define the main rupture zone. The structural analysis of mesoscopic faults in outcropping rock-units, and the analysis of hypocentres distribution, provided important information on the geometry, kinematics, and tectonic stress of the main regional fault systems responsible for the occurred seismic event. This paper proposes the seismotectonic model of high Dragone valley, when the mesostructural analysis describes the main surface fault systems and the horst and graben structure of Riccovolto villag