Abstract:
A special session on the 1976 Friuli earthquake was organised during the 35th Assembly of the European Seismological Commission in Trieste, Italy, on the 40th anniversary of that event. Summarising the oral and poster contributions presented during the session, together with a few others related to the same subject, we present a general overview of the scientific findings as the final chapter of cientific research on that earthquake, which can be considered the first Italian seismic event studied with modern scientific tools.