On May 20th 2012 (Sunday) an earthquake (ML 5.9) hit Northern Italy at 02:03 UTC,. The National Seismic Network [Amato and Mele, 2008; Delladio, 2011] of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) located the hypocenter below the Po Valley in the Emilia region (44.89° N, 11.23° E, 6.3 km depth). Just after the mainshock, the INGV structure of rapid response for seismic emergency has been activated in order to install a temporary seismic network as a complementary of existing permanent network in the epicentral area. The INGV installed 44 temporary stations, ten of these transmitting in real time to seismic monitoring room in Rome. Further 38 temporary seismic stations (16 provided by National Civil Protection Department - DPC, 8 provided by the National Institute of...
Published: 2024-02-10