Anche quest’anno abbiamo riproposto il progetto PCTO “Citizen Geology”, in cui alcuni ragazzi delle scuole superiori vengono coinvolti nelle attività di ricerca del gruppo di Geologia Ambientale. Sei ragazzi del Liceo Galilei di Erba su sono impegnati (e anche tanto!) nell’analisi di un terremoto avvenuto nel 2015 in Malesia, e in particolare nella mappatura delle…
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The ruins of the Roman theater and city gates of Tiberias (Israel, along the western shores of the Sea of Galilee) were over there, firstly dug and studied in the early ’80s, waiting for the eyes of earthquake scientists to whisper their secret. The story of an old, destructive earthquake that caused surface faulting at…
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Over the years, the subsidence affecting the Como urban area in northern Italy has been investigated by several research groups. The major factors inducing this phenomenon in Como basin are i) the thick sequence of reworked material and ii) unconsolidated silty clay sediments with poor mechanical properties, and iii) the variations of the piezometric level.…
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We live in an era of hypertrophic information; we are submerged by data and in many cases the limiting factor to analyses is computational power rather than data availability. This is not the case for historical earthquakes: coeval sources are usually fragmentary, and descriptions may not be crystal clear. Depending on their specialty, Earth scientists…
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Il 12 agosto 2020 un debris flow ha investito due auto causando la morte di tre persone in località Chiareggio (frazione di Chiesa Valmalenco, provincia di Sondrio). L’evento è stato causato dalle ingenti precipitazioni (18.8 mm di pioggia registrati tra le 17 e le 18 alla stazione di Chiesa Valmalenco – S. Giuseppe, Figura 1).…
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The Perigeo research group is excited for the second paper published in one week! In this paper, we analyze earthquake effects through the ESI (Environmental Seismic Intensity) scale for 14 events in the Central and Southern Apennines… this is one of the strong points of the group, so no surprise at all! We develop an…
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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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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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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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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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