On Nov. 24th 2010, for the anniversary of the 2004 earthquake of Valsabbia and Garda, a workshop on “Seismic risk in the Po Plain” took place at Brescia. The conference was organized by CeSiA (Applied Seismology and Structural Dynamics Research Center), a research center of the University of Brescia, with the cooperation of the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali of Comune di Brescia, which, moreover, hosted the meeting. The workshop belongs to a cycle which started in 2006 (information on the previous events is available at http://cesia.ing.unibs.it/).
The workshop topic, which respects the aims of CeSiA, is very interesting since the Po Plain includes areas of moderate but complex seismicity; some of these areas have only recently been classified as seismic by the norms. Thus researchers deem necessary both further geologic and seismologic studies and seis- mic risk assessments of an area characterized by an intense urbanization, which in great part occurred in the absence of adequate seismic rules.
After the opening by the President of CeSiA, Claudio Giorgi, by the Director of Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Paolo Schirolli, by the alderman for Culture of Comune di Brescia, Andrea Arcai, by the President of Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Brescia, Marco Belardi, the workshop, attended by about one hundred people (both technicians or professionals and researchers) included two sessions, “Seismic hazard in the Po Plain” and “Seismic Vulnerability in the Po Plain”.
This presentation briefly describes the workshop programme.
