Categoria: Perigeo

Assessment of attenuation regressions for earthquake-triggered landslides in the Italian Apennines

A new Perigeo-branded paper is now online! The paper is available here; if you can’t wait, here’s a summary of the main outcomes! AAAAnd stay tuned, next week a new post on another paper! The Apennines are prone to earthquakes, and earthquakes commonly produce landslides. How the number of landslide decay with distance from the…
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26/06/2020 0

Francesca Ferrario’s invited talk at the next AIQUA meeting.

We proudly announce that Francesca Ferrario is one of the 5 invited speakers at the incoming next AIQUA meeting (26 June 2020). The meeting will be online so you can follow the speakers online (access code 307-445-605 – talks in italian), AIQUA chose to invite speakers representative of the different souls animating the research on…
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26/05/2020 0

Two upcoming projects

Good news from our research group! We are pleased to announce that Elisa Martinelli and Magda Velazquez have been appointed a 1-year post-doc position! Elisa will lead a project on “Palaeobotanical methods to investigate human impact and “catastrophic” environmental events in the Como basin (N-Italy) since the Roman Period”, while Magda will focus on “Environmental…
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08/05/2020 0

Contagi, epicentri e zone rosse: quando terremoti e epidemie parlano la stessa lingua

In questi giorni di emergenza legata alla diffusione del COVID-19, ci sono alcune parole ricorrenti che mi hanno fatto riflettere. “L’epicentro del contagio è nella zona di Wuhan”, “si pensa ad un allargamento della zona rossa”, “durante il picco dell’epidemia, ci si aspetta uno tsunami di pazienti nei reparti di rianimazione”. “Parole, son parole, e…
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10/03/2020 0

Jim McCalpin lectures for the Uninsubria PhD program

We are pleased to announce that Jim McCalpin, consultant in paleoseismology and geologic hazard for more than 30 years in the US and Author of the renewed book “Paleoseismology“, will be host in March by our Ph.D. program in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. Jim will give two lectures focussing on geological hazard. He will talk…
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14/02/2020 0

Progetto “Citizen Geology”: la parola ai ragazzi!

Dal 20 al 24 gennaio 2020, abbiamo ospitato 6 ragazzi delle scuole superiori nell’ambito di un Percorso per le Competenze Trasversali e per l’Orientamento (PCTO). Ecco il loro resoconto! SCOPO: Lo scopo di questa esperienza era di individuare e analizzare le frane provocate dal terremoto avvenuto sull’isola di Davao nelle Filippine nell’ottobre 2019. Inoltre, il…
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24/01/2020 0

Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e per l’Orientamento: progetto “Citizen Geology”

Dal 20 al 24 gennaio 2020, ospiteremo presso il Laboratorio di Cartografia 6 ragazzi del liceo Marie Curie di Meda nell’ambito di un Percorso per le Competenze Trasversali e per l’Orientamento (PCTO). I ragazzi, sotto la supervisione del Prof. Franz Livio, realizzeranno un database delle frane indotte da una serie di forti terremoti avvenuti nell’isola…
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16/01/2020 0

My AGU (American Geophysical Union) congress

This story begins few months ago, when I’ve been awarded the 1st CRUST workshop best poster prize. So, CRUST (Centro Interuniversitario per l’analisi sismotettonica) supported my expenses to go to a congress (thanks!), and I chose the biggest one, the AGU, which was held in San Francisco on 9-13 December. I’m quite scared by big,…
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19/12/2019 0

Geolympics 8: brackets, logic trees and the earthquake cycle

Every sport-addicted is familiar with group stage, round robins and knockout stages. And each of us likes to forecast the result of a competition. That mean that we are all applying our knowledge (real or presumed), to guess how things will go. Forecasting is the holy grail for hazard management: if we know where and…
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18/12/2019 0

Geolympics 7: Shortened races and building codes

Sometimes races are shortened, delayed, or even deleted due to bad weather or other reasons. It’s happening at the cycling UCI World Championships, where Under-23 road race will be shortened (see here and here). Just few months ago, a stage of the Giro d’Italia and another of the Tour de France had to be neutralized…
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18/12/2019 0