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Earthquakes all the time

Still shaking, this morning around 9 the buildings have been evacuated in Milano.

The epicenter is the same as before, in Emilia near the city of Modena. More buildings crumbled and it seems there are some casualties.

In Italy we have a relatively efficient emergency national organization for these events but we have also some problems that we cannot overcome. For instance there are very few recent and shake resistant buildings, many are centuries old many and the others were built cheaply. And on average we keep them as "precious" and keep using them despite they are totally unsafe. Then as Nation we are on the limit of bankrupt so we don't have resources to spend for a crisis let aside the idea of totally redo buildings across the Nation.

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Felixclaudeb Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:06:35 AM

At least in Bucharest old unsafe buildings are marked as such, and there is the occasional effort to reinforce them. But that's expensive. I'm lucky to live in an apartment building completed in 1982, and sitting on good terrain.

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:08:06 AM

I wish you never have to check how "good" it is.

Felixclaudeb Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:27:35 AM

We already did twice, with major earthquakes in 1986 and 1991. It held very well indeed. But if we had one like in Japan, who knows.

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:32:07 PM

If there was a "medium" only earthquake near Milano it would be an apocalypse.

Felixclaudeb Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:33:52 PM

Well, we had a big one in 1977 which leveled much of Bucharest. After that, the building codes became very strict. Also, we don't have all that many historical buildings, mostly thanks to the Communists (and bombings during WW2, but Italy suffered from that too). So, it's both good and bad.

Paul Barsabbahbarsabbah Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:00:26 AM

HI ! I live about 80 miles from Lorenzo,near city of Genoa. I'm on a mountain, about 725 Mt above sea level.Fortunately,in my little town,all the buildings are very small and lowest.I never felt an earthquake! I greet you Lorenzo and Felix...please be patient ... I write in English very wrong!

OlgaOlgita Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:02:26 PM

People in the picture look so calm and happy wink

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:41:29 PM

They are because:
1. they are 150km away from the earthquake epicenter
2. they are skipping job

53north Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:49:48 AM

http://my.opera.com/YetiBetty/blog/earthquake-prediction-prediksi-gempa-lindol-hula

Hi,
I used to do a large blog on predictions - I left one post of it so people can see, like the scientist at L'Aquila, sometimes they are easy to spot.
Forgive me for spamming, I used to be active on Opera 5 years ago, hope it can help you, maybe.

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