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Armenia, 20 years after the Spitak earthquake

Thanks for the Italian aid

September 10 In December 1988, a violent earthquake struck a wide area of the Armenian Republic in the Caucasus. A lot of countries all around the world, including Italy, showed their solidarity. It was realized, for the first time, an integrated emergency team able to replicate the urban minimum functions of a city destroyed by an earthquake.