Lucia Margheriti from INGV illustrates earthquakes and the deep structure of the Calabrian arc and the southern Tyrrhenian Sea.
In this region? a "subduction" process similar to what happens in the circum-Pacific areas is still active. The ancient ocean of the Tethys (the Ionian Sea) inflects under Calabria and sinks under the Tyrrhenian Sea giving rise to an active activity? particularly deep seismic.