Big EQ in Italy
Big EQ in Italy
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RE: Big EQ in Italy
I am glad it wasn't severe.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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The earthquake, Italy's deadliest since 1980, left a political scandal as rescue workers looked for hundreds of people feared trapped in the rubble. Only last week, Italy's Civil Protection Agency dismissed a seismologist's warnings that the mountainous Abruzzo region, whose capital is L'Aquila, was about to get hit with a massive earthquake.
The seismologist, Giampaolo Giuliani, works for the National Institute of Astrophysics and was monitoring seismic activity and levels of radon, a naturally occurring gas in the soil, to predict earthquakes. A month ago, vans with loudspeakers drove through L'Aquila repeating Mr. Giuliani's predictions. The city government was angered by his warnings and forced him to remove them from the Internet.
On March 31, Italy's Major Risks Committee held a meeting in L'Aquila at which various scientists played down Mr. Giuliani's disaster prediction, saying it was impossible to predict earthquakes with any accuracy. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited L'Aquila yesterday and repeated the line, saying there was "no scientific evidence" that a quake was imminent.
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RE: Big EQ in Italy
World trade center, Kartrina, recent economic meltdown, don't they share some similarities?
RE: Big EQ in Italy
This is the same mindset depicted in the original movie "Jaws" where the local economy is more important to local politicians than the safety of the residents.
There are a lot of natural indicators to earthquakes, not always 100 percent reliable, but are better than nothing. We just have to listen.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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"Seismologists in Italy and the United States could not immediately assign a magnitude to Tuesday's quake. The APcom news agency said it was between 5.5. and 5.7 on the Richter scale. The quake that struck Monday was 5.8-magnitude."
And this damage is from only a 5.8... God help them if they saw a 7.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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However, your point is well taken, this was not a very large quake
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Dik
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Bottom line is that in some time in the future, local engineers here are going to have a lot of work. So will the undertakers.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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