Last week in Rome for the conference titled "Mapping the seismic risk in the national seaports" ( of 24 June 2011), were presented the results of the research project on the estimation of seismic risk of the ports through the GIS (Geographical Information System), focused on case study of the port of Salerno, which was funded by the Department of Protection Civil and built by Eucentre (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering).
In Salerno are already in progress key infrastructure projects of consolidation and adjustment of the docks with the regulations and seismic loads more consequential to the increase in port traffic.An in-depth campaign geognostic preceded the design of this work: geotechnical tests were carried out with seismic dilatometer (SDMT) aimed at assessing the risk of liquefaction of soil in situ under the seismic action, an advanced methodology Made in Italy that the port of Salerno was among the first to use.
The conference was attended by the President of the Port Salerno Andrea Annunziata, chief of the Technical Area of the institution, Helen Valentine. Commenting on the outcome of the meeting, Salerno port authority has stressed that recent tragic events caused by disastrous earthquakes, particularly during the last fifteen years have affected large urbanized areas of the globe, has resulted in a particular seismic vulnerability of their own port areas and coastal areas, however, and as its commercial airports, in case of earthquakes of high magnitude and frequency, infrastructure constitute "strategic" for immediate and effective response to instrumental damage and loss of human lives that occur as a result of violent and sudden disasters.The operation of the "rescue machine," which can usefully employ the resource water in case of similar disasters - said the Port Authority - may suffer a sharp slowdown, while the ports (especially the docks) can report severe damage after strong earthquakes. The more or less rapid recovery of local economies in an area hit by an earthquake / tsunami may depend largely on the ability to answer the fundamental contribution that the industry and its main driving force for economic development, the port for ' in fact, manages to give his territory. Hints at, therefore, the essential driving force that can carry commercial ports for economic and social recovery of a given location the city, a city or a metropolis.
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Last week in Rome for the conference titled "Mapping the seismic risk in the national seaports" 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
