The Parametric Catalogue of Italian Earthquakes CPTI15 v 4.0 [Rovida et al., 2022] does still include 226 earthquakes whose epicentral parameters are based on preliminary studies carried out in the first half of the 1990s and identified by the acronym AMGNDT95 [Archivio Macrosismico GNDT, 1995]. These studies are ‘preliminary’ in the sense that generally they limited themselves to analyse the bibliographic references of the PFG catalogue [Postpischl, 1985a] – i.e. in the case of pre‐1900 earthquakes mostly the Baratta [1901] compilation – and to derive epicentral parameters from these references or, at best, from the sources they quoted (when available), that is, usually, other seismological compilations or local historiography. For some years now, an operation has been underway to...