The Fault Geometry and Surface Ruptures, the Damage Pattern and the Deformation Field of the 6th and 7th of April 2009, Mw=6.3 and Mw=5.6 Earthquakes in L'Aquila (Central Italy) Revealed by Ground and Space Based Observations

(1) Laboratory of Mineralogy & Geology, Department of Geological Sciences and Atmospheric Environment, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Str., 118 55 Athens, Greece, (2) AON Benfield Hazard Research Centre, Department of Earth Sciences Birkbeck College and University College London, WC 1E 6BT, London UK (i.papanikolaou@ucl.ac.uk) , (3) Department of Geophysics – Geothermics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia, GR 157 84, Athens, Greece, (4) Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea, GR 176-71, Athens, Greece, (5) Department of Dynamic, Tectonic and Applied Geology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia, GR 157 84, Athens, Greece.