Two additional earthquakes have struck Italy this afternoon.

At the moment there are around 15 deaths reported.
Following a request from the Italian Civil Protection department
RNRE have immediately sent one Mobile Unit with 5 radioamateurs
to the area and two more units are ready to go when requested.
The HF frequency 7060kHz is in use by IQ1HQ (headquarter RNRE)
and IQ0TK. ( Civil Protection Department in Rome). VHF links are
currently on 145.200MHz.

Italian Radio Amateurs respond to Emilia Romagna region Earthquake

At 0200UTC 20th May 2012 an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. At the time of writing this report six people are known to have died in the quake with 50 injured. A number of strong aftershocks continue to affect the area.

The Italian Civil Protection authorities are putting a response structure into place capable of dealing with >1000 people. The voluntary group RNRE ( Raggruppamento Nazionale Radiocomunicazioni Emergenza ) report that communications in the area are currently good but due to the continuing seismic activity have been requested to make one or two mobile units available to respond if needed until late Monday evening.

No HF frequencies are in use at this time.

Following flash flooding in the Liguria and Tuscany regions of North
West Italy last week which killed 10 people, further heavy rain has
struck the region killing more people in flooding. The Amateur Radio
Voluntary communications group RNRE has been asked by their government
to provide additional radio communications in the affected areas from
Friday 4th November until at least Monday 7th November.
HF Frequencies which may be used in Italy are 3.760MHz, 3643MHz and
7.045-7.060MHz. Amateurs are asked to listen carefully before using
these frequencies to avoid causing QRM to emergency nets.