Experimental seismic monitoring activities of the Frederick II plexuses.

Monitoring the shaking and response of structures in the university's buildings to the effects of earthquakes. This is an experimental project of the University Task Force, which, since its establishment in 2023, has been studying the seismic risk resulting from the current phenomenon of bradyseism in the Phlegraean Fields.

The experimentation involves theinstallation of instruments to measure, in real time, the accelerations at the base of the buildings of the Federico II and their seismic response.

The project, coordinated by the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture with Professors Iunio Iervolino and Georgios Baltzopoulos and together with the Departments of Civil Engineering, Physics and Earth Sciences forming the task force, has already installed detectors at the Agnano, Fuorigrotta (Via Claudio and Piazzale Tecchio) and Monte Sant'Angelo sites. Instruments will also soon be installed at sites in the historic center and San Giovanni a Teduccio, and then will be completed with the remaining sites.

Activities to study seismic phenomena at the Phlegraean Fields are being conducted, also in collaboration with the Vesuvius Observatory and the National Institute of Oceanography and Geophysics, to measure and prepare models of seismic shaking produced by earthquakes at the Phlegraean Fields toward Naples and in particular at the sites of the University's main plexuses. The work of the Federiciano interdisciplinary group also produced studies that were useful for emergency management by the administration of the Naples Metropolitan Area.