Italy 's first modern law on antiseismic norms was passed in 1976 , as a response to the temblor that devastated the trentino alto adige , a northern province in the alps .
As it happens , alto adige is thelocation of one of the most dramatic expressions of modern globalwarming : the discovery of the so-called iceman -- the frozen remains of a herder who lived in the region 5300 yearsago .
