April 6, 2009. Hours 3.32 am
An earthquake with a magnitude> 5 earth-shaking Abruzzo releasing its energy in particular near the city of L'Aquila and in the surrounding countryside. The media have rightly emphasized the wave of destruction and despair derived from the victims and ruined towns. The accusations, suspicions the whole of Italy and the certainties about what is possible and necessary to advance to mitigate the effects of a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake occupy the pages of daily newspapers and the media. The categories most frequently cited and displayed in all the senses are those of geologists, engineers, architects and surveyors and of course the seismologists who are a race apart, a cross between the geology and physics. Soil obviously we are not party to the proceedings live. Especially for what concerns the study of earthquakes. Maybe we could be, however, with regard to the following event: what happens after an earthquake in SURFACE? Which dynamics can trigger? The study of soils, defined as soil-pedon and not as is interpreted by the other categories mentioned above, it can still be helpful? There are areas of soil science may be questioned in any way to have a particular vision of the phenomenon? In short, a thorough knowledge of the first meters of material can give some useful information to the management of an area affected by an earthquake.
Have your considerations, by geologists and agronomists to all those who in some way active in the area for soil conservation. Federico Castellani
An earthquake with a magnitude> 5 earth-shaking Abruzzo releasing its energy in particular near the city of L'Aquila and in the surrounding countryside. The media have rightly emphasized the wave of destruction and despair derived from the victims and ruined towns. The accusations, suspicions the whole of Italy and the certainties about what is possible and necessary to advance to mitigate the effects of a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake occupy the pages of daily newspapers and the media. The categories most frequently cited and displayed in all the senses are those of geologists, engineers, architects and surveyors and of course the seismologists who are a race apart, a cross between the geology and physics. Soil obviously we are not party to the proceedings live. Especially for what concerns the study of earthquakes. Maybe we could be, however, with regard to the following event: what happens after an earthquake in SURFACE? Which dynamics can trigger? The study of soils, defined as soil-pedon and not as is interpreted by the other categories mentioned above, it can still be helpful? There are areas of soil science may be questioned in any way to have a particular vision of the phenomenon? In short, a thorough knowledge of the first meters of material can give some useful information to the management of an area affected by an earthquake.
Have your considerations, by geologists and agronomists to all those who in some way active in the area for soil conservation. Federico Castellani
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