Terremoti Italia

The description of Terremoti Italia

Site Editorial Commentary：Stay up to date on the latest earthquakes in Italy and view them on the map.

Stay informed about the latest earthquakes in Italy and view them on a map, along with active faults and the Italian seismic hazard map.

Check the affected population (within 20 km of the epicenter), the distance from your location, and the instrumental duration of the tremors.

Share information on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, via email, or SMS.

Search for earthquakes that have occurred since the year 1000.

Keep an eye on the widget displaying the map of recent events (may not function if the app is moved to the SD card).

Observe the progression of seismic sequences.

Receive notifications of new tremors and automatic updates to the list even when the application is not active.

Occasionally, very strong earthquakes occurring in other parts of the world but detected by Italian instruments may also be included in the list.

Data is sourced from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) website, which publishes it at least 15/30 minutes after the tremor.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1) Why am I not receiving notifications of new tremors?
Increasingly, Android phones have energy-saving systems that put applications to "sleep." To receive notifications correctly, ensure that Terremoti Italia is not on the list of applications to be "put to sleep."

2) Why is the widget no longer working?
You have likely moved the application to the SD card. Android does not allow widgets from apps located on the SD card to function.

3) Sometimes the alerts do not arrive or are delayed.
If the application is moved to the SD card, there may be disruptions when the SD card is unmounted.

4) The application freezes when I open the map.
Some Android devices have a defect in the Google Maps display software. If the problem also occurs with other applications, it may be due to this.
For example, problems have been encountered with Wiko devices running Android 4.2 and are resolved by updating to the next version, Android 4.4.

5) Why is there a half-hour delay between the tremor and the alert in the application?
There is a minimum delay with which INGV publishes the data. There are currently no faster sources. Sometimes the delay may even increase (1 hour); rarely decrease.

6) Would the application be more useful if it gave the alert BEFORE the tremor? Is this possible?
It sounds like a joke, but this question is occasionally asked (even in the app's comments). Unfortunately, current scientific knowledge DOES NOT ALLOW us to predict the time and location of tremors. In Italy, we are at the forefront of research in this field and know very well which are the most at-risk areas where construction must be carried out with due caution!

7) Why is the time reported different from that on the INGV website?
The time on the INGV website is Greenwich Mean Time without daylight saving time. The application, on the other hand, reports the correct time according to the phone's settings (+2 in Italy with daylight saving time).

8) Could a filter be added for places of interest?
The locations are added by INGV technicians and may not follow a well-defined convention: a distance-based filter and the display of the tremor's distance are available.

9) Could there be a longer history?
The history is based on data from the Italian Seismic Bulletin, which dates back to 2002, and a historical database with data up to the year 1000.

10) What do earthquakes in other countries have to do with it?
In some cases, INGV also includes these earthquakes, evidently because they are of considerable intensity and also detected by us.

11) The app crashes when I open the map.
There are some devices on the market with poorly made ROMs, on which apps that use Google Maps (except Google Maps) do not work.
One of these is the Mediacom 715 (first version).

12) What scale is the magnitude expressed in?
Richter scale