title: [Earthquake in Abruzzo, public health interventions. Preliminary report].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Servizio Rischio Sanitario, Roma. squarciones@virgilio.it
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Squarcione
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Matricardi
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Caporale
authors.forename: Villa P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Dalla
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Migliorati
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Niutta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leonardi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Giamberardino
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Capuzzi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laurenzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Romito
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bove
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Montanari
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Casagrande
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Muccicone
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Generali
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trotta
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chiarenza
mesh_terms: D055866:Earthquakes; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011634:Public Health; D018635:Rescue Work