Pasquale
Cito
Professore di II fascia
- GSD 08/CEAR-07 ; SSD CEAR-07/A
- p.cito@ssmeridionale.it
- Via Mezzocannone, n.4-80134 (NA)
- Area Interdisciplinare Scientifico-Tecnologica
Bio
Pasquale Cito svolge attività di ricerca nell’ambito del rischio sismico delle strutture e infrastrutture. Attualmente ricopre il ruolo di Professore associato presso la Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Napoli).
Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca alla Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II nel 2019, con una tesi sulla analisi di pericolosità sismica probabilistica. Durante il periodo da ricercatore presso la Federico II, ha collaborato in diversi progetti di ricerca nazionali e internazionali. E’ autore di diversi articoli su riviste internazionali e ha partecipato a diverse conferenze di settore. Dal 2023 studia la attività sismica registrata ai Campi Flegrei, pubblicando diversi articoli sulla mitigazione del rischio sismico dell’area e l’impatto sul patrimonio edilizio.
Pubblicazioni
Pubblicazioni scientifiche su rivista
Baltzopoulos G., Cito P., Ricci F., Volpe M., Selva J., Cozzani V., Iervolino I, (2026). Earthquake and tsunami NaTech risk assessment for oil storage facilities.Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.70166.
Scala A., Strumia C., Cito P., Scotto di Uccio F., Festa G. Iervolino I., Zollo A., Bobbio A., Convertito V., Elia L., Emolo A., Iaccarino A. G.(2025). Ground Motion Models for Campi Flegrei (Italy). Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.. DOI 10.1007/s10518-025-02315-6
Cito P, Baraschino R., Iervolino I. (2025) Earthquake engineering issues with bradyseism at Campi Flegrei: end 2024 – late 2025 update. Bullettin of Geophysics and Oceanography. DOI 10.4430/bgo00508
Cito P., Baraschino R., Iervolino I. (2025) Ground motion, estimated shaking, and structural response at Campi Flegrei during bradyseism. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 54(5): 1313 – 1323.
Iervolino I., Cito P., De Falco M., Festa G., Herrmann M., Lomax A., Marzocchi W., Santo A., Strumia C., Massaro L., Scala A., Scotto di Uccio F., and Zollo A. (2024) Seismic Risk Mitigation at Campi Flegrei in Volcanic Unrest. Nature Communications, 15, 10474.
Cito P., Iervolino I. (2024) Drivers to seismic hazard curve slope. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 51:3296–3303, 53(15); 53:4497–4510.
Cito P., Vitale A., Iervolino I, (2024) Territorial exceedance of probabilistic seismic hazard from ShakeMap data. Scientific Reports, 14:4840
Baltzopoulos G., Baraschino R., Cito P., Chioccarelli E., Vitale A., Iervolino I. (2023) Near-source ground motion in the M7.8 Gaziantep (Turkey) earthquake. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 52(12); 3529-3913.
Iervolino I., Chioccarelli E., Cito P. (2023) Testing three seismic hazard models for Italy via multi-site observations. PLOS ONE, 18(4): e0284909.
Cito P., Chioccarelli E., Iervolino I. (2023) Conditional hazard for simplified multi-site seismic hazard and risk analyses. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, ;52:482–499.
Cito P., Iervolino I. (2022) On occurrence disaggregation of probabilistic seismic hazard. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 51:3296–3303.
Orlacchio M., Cito P., Polidoro B., Villani M., Iervolino I. (2022) Sequence-based hazard maps for the United Kingdom. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 112(4): 2124-2140.
Cito P., Chioccarelli E., Iervolino I. (2022) Macroseismic intensity hazard maps for Italy based on a recent grid source model Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 20:2245–2258.
Iervolino I., Cito P., Lanzano G., Felicetta C., Vitale A. (2021) Exceedance of design actions in epicentral areas: insights from the ShakeMap envelopes for the 2016-2017 central Italy sequence. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 19:5391-5414.
Iervolino I., Vitale A., Cito P. (2021) Empirical assessment of seismic design hazard’s exceedance area. Scientific Reports, 11:18803.
Chioccarelli E., Cito P., Visini F., Iervolino I. (2021) Sequence-based hazard analysis for Italy considering a grid seismic source model. Annals of Geophysics, 64, 2, SE214.
Cito P., Iervolino I. (2020) Rarity, proximity, and design actions: mapping strong earthquakes in Italy. Annals of Geophysics, 63(6), SE671.
Cito P., Iervolino I. (2020) Peak-over-threshold: quantifying ground motion beyond design. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 49(5): 458-478
Iervolino I., Giorgio M., Cito P. (2019) Which earthquakes are expected to exceed the design spectra? Earthquake Spectra, 35: 1465–1483.
Forte G., Chioccarelli E., Cito P., De Falco M., Santo A., Iervolino I. (2019) Seismic soil classification of Italy based on surface geology and shear-wave velocity measurements. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 122: 79-93
Chioccarelli E., Cito P., Iervolino I., Giorgio M. (2019) REASSESS V2.0: software for single- and multi-site probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17:1769–1793.
Iervolino I., Giorgio M., Cito P. (2019) The peak over the design threshold in strong earthquakes. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17:1145–1161.
Iervolino I., Giorgio M., Cito P. (2017) The effect of spatial dependence on hazard validation. Geophysical Journal International, 209:1363–1368.
Pubblicazioni scientifiche su atti di convegno
Iervolino I., Baltzopoulos G., Chioccarelli E., Cito P. (2025) Issues in near-source probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of the Messina Strait (Italy): preliminary investigation. XX ANIDIS Conference, L’Ingegneria Sismica in Italia, Assisi (PG), Italy.
Cito P., Baraschino R., Iervolino I. Engineering research at Campi Flegrei during bradyseism. Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida, GNGTS 2025, Bologna, Italy.
Scala A.,Strumia C., Cito P., Scotto di Uccio F., Festa G., Iervolino I., Zollo A.,.Bobbio A., Convertito V., Elia L., Emolo A., Iaccarino A.G.,Ground Motion Prediction Equations for the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida, GNGTS 2025, Bologna, Italy.
Cito P., Vitale A., and Iervolino I, (2024) Exceedance of probabilistic seismic hazard maps in Italy. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria & Online, 14–19 April 2024.
Scala A., Cito P., Strumia C., Scotto di Uccio F., Festa G., Iervolino I., Zollo A., Convertito V., Elia L., Emolo A., Bobbio A., Iaccarino A.G. (2024) Ground Motion Prediction Equations for the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria & Online, 14–19 April 2024.
Cito P., Vitale A., Iervolino I. (2022) Exceedance of design seismic actions during the 2016-2017 central Italy seismic sequence: sensitivity to two seismic hazard models. XIX CONVEGNO ANIDIS, L’ ingegneria sismica in Italia. Torino, 11-16 settembre.
Orlacchio M., Cito P., Iervolino I. (2022)A sensitivity analysis of sequence-based seismic hazard assessment for the United Kingdom. Proceedings of 3rd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & SEISMOLOGY BUCHAREST, ROMANIA.
Forte G., Chioccarelli E., De Falco M., Cito P., Santo A., Iervolino I..(2020) Seismic soil class map for Italy according to European and Italian codes map, EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-18087.
Forte G., Chioccarelli E., De Falco M., Cito P., Santo A., Iervolino I. (2019) Seismic soil class according to European and Italian codes map for Italy, atti del 38° convegno Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida (GNGTS), Roma, 11-14 novembre.
Cito P., Chioccarelli E., Iervolino I. (2019) Comparing alternative models for multisite probabilistic seismic risk analysis, 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), Seoul, South Korea, May 26-30.
Chioccarelli E., Cito P., Iervolino I. (2018) Disaggregation of sequence-based seismic hazard. Proc. of 16ECEE – 16 th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Iervolino I., Chioccarelli E., Cito P. (2016) REASSESS V1.0: a computationally-efficient software for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Proc. of VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS, Crete Island, Greece, 5–10 June.
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Quantitative Risk Analysis
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