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Innovative developments in the European Commission ISPRA-JRC collaboration on tsunami risk

The directive of the President of the Council of Ministers dated 17 February 2017, which establishes the national tsunami alert system (SiAM), provides for the development of innovative systems to be put in service configuration to adequately deal with possible tsunamis. ISPRA, that is an active component of the system with its network of sea level meters along all the national coasts, is supported by the laboratories of the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, to integrate the components innovations developed by them and verified in service operating systems for SiAM.

The long-term collaboration of an agreement dating back to 2014 was renewed in 2018 from ISPRA DG Alessandro Bratti and the DG of Joint Research Center (JRC) Vladimir Sucha. This agreement allows the exchange of information and good practices, the use of data and information produced by the network of sea level meters installed by the European JRC Crisis Management Laboratory in Italy and in many other Mediterranean countries.

The database that makes available real-time data produced by sea level meters in use on non-Italian Mediterranean coasts allows ISPRA to reuse the hardware and software systems (http://tsunami.isprambiente.it/TAD_server) developed by CCR, clearly improving the efficiency of SiAM in the case of a seismic epicenter far from our coasts.