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The Italian strong motion network

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The Italian Strong Motion Network is a permanent monitoring system run by the Italian national emergency management department (Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, DPC). The network is known as RAN (Rete Accelerometrica Nazionale). An extensive project for updating and improving the technology of RAN instruments as well as the number of recording points was performed in the last 10 years. A wide site selection survey was carried out from eastern Sicily along the Italian peninsula, covering high seismic risk areas. The recording station density and the choice of high-quality digital strong motion instruments ensure reliability of the RAN network in the long-term. At the end of 2008, the free field sites selection and instruments installation, planned in the project, were quite completed. In planning and drawing the new RAN, special attention has been devoted to the robustness of the transmission systems, and to the distribution of new stations in order to ensure plenty of data during a seismic emergency. We spent special care both in the estimation of the RAN site responses and in the diffusion of the strong motion data. In order to better identify damaged earthquake areas, improved ground motion parameters need to be set. Such parameters will also assist future progress for engineering seismic design techniques as well as disaster mitigation.

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  1. Dipartimento Protezione Civile (DPC), Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Via Vitorchiano, 4, 00195, Rome, Italy

    Antonella Gorini, Mario Nicoletti, Paolo Marsan, Riccardo Bianconi, Rita De Nardis, Luisa Filippi, Sandro Marcucci, Franco Palma & Elisa Zambonelli

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Gorini, A., Nicoletti, M., Marsan, P. et al. The Italian strong motion network. Bull Earthquake Eng 8, 1075–1090 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-009-9141-6

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