The area affected by the earthquake of April 6, 2009 is located within the central section of the Apennines. This mountain chain, which traverses most of the length of the Italian peninsula, is the result of the convergence between the African and European tectonic plates and the subsequent collision of the two continental margins, a geodynamic process illustrated in Figure 2.1 that began in the Neogene age (about 23 MY before present) and was responsible for the closing of the Mesozoic Tethys Ocean.

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