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Earthquake in Central Italy

After the earthquake in central Italy, since the first hours  later Ispra is carrying out the monitoring of landslides risk, check faults and fractures of the earth, check the hydrogeology situations of the area affected by the earthquake – above all the sites where  will be built the Map (temporary housing modules).

After the first emergency operations for victims and displaced persons, under the coordination of the Italian Civil Protection, an ISPRA technical team was immediately on the places destroyed to verify the danger and risks posed by the earthquake swarm still in progress.

Present from the early hours in the operative room of the Civil Protection in Rome, ISPRA experts have decided to move in Rieti on Sunday, August 28, when it took place the Command and Control Directorate (Dicomac), which Ispra is part together with other national body research (including INGV, CNR, Enea).

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