
The Minister for Civil Protection Nello Musumeci announced in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi the extraordinary plan for the Campi Flegrei, voted by the Council of Ministers, which provides for the reduction of exposure and vulnerability to volcanic risk, the preparation of the population of 85 thousand inhabitants and 15 thousand buildings, post-earthquake reconstruction and the anti-seismic adaptation of buildings on request.
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The Campi Flegrei area is subject to a repetitive bradyseismic crisis and hosts 85 thousand inhabitants and 15 thousand buildings above an active volcanic system.
The Campi Flegrei area is not comparable to an area subject to the classic earthquake event.
There is a very large population, the intervention area includes 85 thousand inhabitants and 15 thousand buildings, which lives above an active volcanic system, with a repetitive bradyseismic crisis.
I love talking about conscious coexistence with risk. The extraordinary plan voted tonight takes on this rule and its guiding principle". This was stated by the Minister for Civil Protection Nello Musumeci, in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi after the Council of Ministers. "The State does not promise a possible elimination of the risk but assumes the duty to reduce exposure and vulnerability, prepare the population and rebuild what the earthquake has destroyed and allow, to those who request it, the adaptation of their building to anti-seismic regulations", he adds.

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