Editors:
G. Valensise and D. Pantosti

Principal authors:
R. Basili, P. Bordoni, P. Burrato, R. Nappi, D. Pantosti, A. Spinelli and G. Valensise

with data contributions by:
E. Baroux, R. Basili, P. Bordoni, P. Burrato, G. D’Addezio, P.M. De Martini, R. Nappi,
D. Pantosti, L. Piccardi, S. Pucci, G. Valensise, P. Vannoli and G. Vannucci

The Database has been completed with the financial contribution of Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia and of the E.U. project FAUST (Faults as a Seismologists' Tool, ENV4-CT97-0528).

We are grateful to IT & T s.r.l. of Villa d'Almè (Bergamo) for programming the software structure that governs the Database and for supplying some of the support data tables. We also wish to thank all the copyright holders for permission to reproduce materials included in the Database, the Laboratorio Grafica e Immagini of INGV-Roma for technical support in the preparation of most of this material, and all the colleagues that contributed with their comments and suggestions.

Finally, special thanks are due to Daniela Riposati and Laboratorio Grafica e Immagini of INGV-Roma for designing and creating the web-based layout and the graphics of the CD-ROM.