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different scales. The proposed framework has also been implemented for a “virtual” case -study urban area for illustrative purposes. Results preliminarily confirmed the feasibility of the procedure as well as the philosophy of the proposed framework: moving from a lower refinement level to a higher one, although typically requires an increasing effort/investment for data collection and computational cost, returns more reliable (i.e., less uncertain) results. Implementing such a procedure in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment may represent a remarkable “step change” towards the development and implementation of a national seismic risk reduction plan. Acknowledgements This research is supported by the PNRR - National Research Centre CN1 on "High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing" - Spoke 5 – “Environment and Natural Disaster”. The authors acknowledge CN1 Spoke 5 for funding Mattia Francioli (RTD-A) and Michele Matteoni (PhD). 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