With reference to some articles published in recent days in the media and press, it is underlined that since 24 August 2016, the beginning of the most important and dramatic seismic sequence since the Irpinia earthquake of 1980, theIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) has worked tirelessly, ensuring the nation receives permanent, rapid, and timely information on the ongoing phenomenon. In six months, over 55.000 earthquakes have been located, a number that typically takes five years to reach.
This enormous work was carried out by the permanent and precarious staff of the Organization with a great effort, without additional resources and with true self-sacrifice: thanks to them from all of INGV.
The Director of the National Earthquake Center (CNT), Salvatore Mazza, handed in his resignation to the institution's top management bodies solely and exclusively due to family problems and will remain in office until the completion of the new selection procedure.
In the meantime, the Institute has continued and continues, 24 hours a day, to monitor our volcanoes and the earthquakes affecting the Italian territory.
The Institute remains a solid research body and is a key player in the National Civil Protection Service: it cohesively carries out its institutional tasks at the highest level of professionalism. Despite the financial distress in which it finds itself, INGV will continue to work with determination to achieve ever more advanced scientific results.