Today, May 4, the Minister for Civil Protection and Marine Policies visited the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) welcomed the Minister for Civil Protection and Marine Policies to its Roman office Senator Nello Musumeci visiting the institution for the first time. During the visit he was accompanied by the Head of the Civil Protection Department, Fabrizio Curcio, and by the Head of the Casa Italia Department, Louis Ferrara.
Received by the President of INGV, Prof. Carlo Doglioni, he visited the Monitoring Room in Rome and, in connection with the Surveillance Rooms of the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples and the Etnean Observatory in Catania, followed the ongoing activities live that the Institute carries out for seismic, volcanic and tsunami warning monitoring and surveillance throughout the national territory and part of the Mediterranean.
Appreciation and gratitude were expressed by the Minister with the words "Mine was a well-deserved and heartfelt visit, at the end of which I expressed my appreciation to President Carlo Doglioni. I have found a highly motivated and competent scientific community, which I believe I can define as one of the most authoritative in Europe for subjects related to earth science. I ensured maximum collaboration with the Civil Protection according to the common understanding with my colleague Anna Maria Bernini on whose dicastery the Institute dependso ".
"Receiving the Minister of Civil Protection was significant for the institution”, declared the President of INGV Carlo Doglioni and the Department Directors Francesca Bianco, Massimo Chiappini and Claudio Chiarabba. “The work carried out by the INGV scientific community for knowledge of the Earth is constant, just as the 24-hour monitoring and surveillance system of natural events carried out by the Rooms in Rome, Naples and Catania is active. The Institute, divided into three scientific departments, Environment, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, is present throughout Italy with ten Sections to which are added another twenty branches. Always present in providing scientific data to the civil protection authorities, INGV supports the intervention of the authorities so that the best prevention can be implemented in the area and immediate interventions in the event of seismic, volcanic or tsunami events ". President Doglioni concluded.
