Earthquake in Abruzzo, public health interventions. Preliminary report
Squarcione, S.; Matricardi, G.; Russo, M.R.; Caporale, V.; Dalla, V.P.; Migliorati, G.; Niutta, P.; Leonardi, M.; Di Giamberardino, L.; Capuzzi, T.; Marino, G.; Laurenzi, R.; Romito, P.; Bove, M.; Montanari, A.; Casagrande, M.R.; Martinez, V.; Muccicone, A.F.; Generali, E.; Trotta, C.; Chiarenza, R.
Annali di igiene medicina preventiva e di comunita 22(2): 131-146
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 1120-9135 PMID: 20476653 Document Number: 647076
On 6th April 2009, at 3.32 AM, there was in L'Aquila and in some neighbouring villages, after an earthquake swarm last some months, an earthquake of M(L) = 5.8 (Richter magnitude scale) on depth of 8.8 km. The event was sensed in a very broad area, till in Rome and Ancon. The operative committee of the Civil Protection Department immediately gathered and a first operating group was despatched in the epicentre; the voluntary association of civil protection were in a pre-alarm situation and then were activated. This work want describe all the activities from 6th April 2009 till 31th August 2009, giving too a synthesis of the normative lines in case of catastrophic events typology C, otherwise all that events impossible to manage without national intervention.