First remarks about the expected damage scenario following the 24th August 2016 earthquake in central Italy

Right after an earthquake the estimation the number of involved people, dead and the injured, missing people and homeless represent a topic issue in the emergency management, which is closely related to building damage scenario for the area of interest. To this end, in present work, different methodological approaches for seismic vulnerability assessment of buildings at large scale are used to derive damage scenarios for the Municipalities of Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto, which have been struck by the 24th August 2016 earthquake. Seismic input characterization will be defined through the ShakeMap of the 24th August 2016 earthquake event, published by the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV). Data about the number of inhabitant and involved buildings, and about their typological characteristics will be inferred from census data. Damage scenarios according to various approaches, different in their conception (empirical or analytical methodologies) and/or simply in the choice of the required input parameters, will be derived. A detailed discussion about the reliability of results is carried out, through the comparison with the usability outcomes published by the Department of Civil Protection.