After having decided to shift the G8 summit meeting from the idyllic island town of La Maddalena of the coast of Sardina to L'Aquila, the Italian government and local authorities have put an emergency evacuation plan in place for the world's top political leadership in case of another earthquake hitting the venue.

The Guardia di Finanza Non-Commissioned Officers' School is the venue for an austere G8. The building, which Italy says is earthquake-proof, was given the green signal to host top world leaders at the summit after addressing safety issues regarding earthquakes.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got the venue shifted here - an unlikely one for an international summit - as a demonstration of global solidarity with the earthquake victims and also to to enable the rebuilding of the town of just 70,000 people at top speed and channel in billions of euros in funding.

'There's no risk,' Berlusconi told a newspaper: 'Even if there was a quake, all the guests would be absolutely safe.'

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini assured participants for the summit that the organizers had 'foreseen all the possibilities'.

'From the seismic point of view one can't predict anything but we are ready,' Frattini said.