Introduction
The Earthquakes Department is responsible for seismic monitoring on a national scale and for tsunamis that occur in the Mediterranean basin, on which it provides timely information to government bodies and society. It publishes bulletins and detailed reports on seismic activity, manages freely accessible seismological databases with information on historical and instrumental earthquakes. The collected data are used to study the nature and distribution of seismic activity, the causes and the geodynamic context of reference, to improve the understanding of seismic risk. The information obtained from the recorded seismic waves is used to imagine the interior of the Earth and develop models of the Earth's structure.
