ARMONIA Project: Transfrontier Strategy in the Management of Earthquakes

The ARMONIA project between Italy and Austria, represents a cross-border strategy for prevention and management of seismic risk through real-time production of shaking and damage scenarios using integration and processing of data from seismic and accelerometer monitoring networks. Partners are developing an innovative seismic monitoring system to have an immediate evaluation of the damages distribution and to plan interventions immediately after the occurrence of a destructive earthquake. The first year of ARMONIA project was focused on the reinforcement and improvement of cross border existing free-field accelerometric network and implementation of a dense monitoring network of "significant" buildings through the creation of a dense monitoring network of sensible target buildings in near fault high risk areas along the cross-border territory between Italy and Austria. New instrumentation has been tested and new sites have been selected by following common protocols. This allows to enhance the effectiveness in a transnational prospective, in order to obtain the required quality of the data together with the maximum distribution of the instruments in the territory and provides high level of efficiency adding important information in case of emergency.