On April 6, 2009 an earthquake of 5.8 ° Richter struck the city of L'Aquila and surrounding areas: 299 dead, thousands displaced, thousands of unsafe buildings or partially uninhabitable, thousands of homes destroyed, millions of euro in damages. And did you know this.
Today I sit down to write a month has passed, we all metabolized, to a greater or lesser extent the effects of the media business, we all have known more or less real budgets and we are all aware of that but if and behind this story. I today, 1 st day since my return from the earth quake, finally I would express an objective opinion that I believe the matter, limiting the possible transport inner bound to stay in Abruzzo and what I saw. Among the things to be limiting, and this is the great difficulty, there is outrage, generalized to many.
I will not say how it was organized machine of relief, I still think that it worked in principle, despite great difficulties, I will say how terrible it was the vision of some things and poignant understanding of some people, but I guarantee you that the temptation is strong!
The earthquake comes from the activation of a fault, well-known, and where the trend followed by all time (I personally looked at data from at least January 16): seismic zone was and he knew it.
Today I sit down to write a month has passed, we all metabolized, to a greater or lesser extent the effects of the media business, we all have known more or less real budgets and we are all aware of that but if and behind this story. I today, 1 st day since my return from the earth quake, finally I would express an objective opinion that I believe the matter, limiting the possible transport inner bound to stay in Abruzzo and what I saw. Among the things to be limiting, and this is the great difficulty, there is outrage, generalized to many.
I will not say how it was organized machine of relief, I still think that it worked in principle, despite great difficulties, I will say how terrible it was the vision of some things and poignant understanding of some people, but I guarantee you that the temptation is strong!
The earthquake comes from the activation of a fault, well-known, and where the trend followed by all time (I personally looked at data from at least January 16): seismic zone was and he knew it.
The signs objectively there but as we know geologists define how, when and where it is currently impossible. One thing is certain, however, what is the civil protection service in Italy (Law 225/92) responds well to the work of the rescue even of the forecast (in this case, we reiterate impossible) but also of prevention! And this work has been done little or nothing. As usual as thousands of times I have to support the prevention can be done in two ways: non-structural measures and structural interventions. Somebody will say: "Even in the field of seismic risk?" The answer is yes.
Go down and you realize that even the shacks of more than 100 years, renovated or restored with the chains held up, those associated with the roofs have avoided that were opened as shoeboxes killing people. Going down you realize that the buildings where they are following rules of the rules (why the fuck the rules are held up !!!!!) (ultimate limit state and the protection of human life) ... Yes, if people do not respect the rules is dead. And then you realize even houses and buildings where building styles intersect: the stairs with a barrel vault with first floor and related rocks in the second brick and wooden roof, and here's the omelette! But the question is: whose fault is it?? Eventually, after a bit 'of reflection I realize that the fault is always ours technicians. Technicians who make the profession unscrupulous or those who work evil in the audience and giving a sloppy amnesties and permissions as if they were administrative fines. It 's always ours! And I say we because I work not bad, do the best every day, and even those who read me because I think it works badly, but since we can not tell who, when and how then do the right thing to say is that it fails the entire category and each of us, if only for a small piece and managers!
Yes, because when you write the technical standards for building the controversy arises over who can or can not do something (and then you realize that houses built on a perfect substrate and geotechnical engineer with expertise govern, true, but then had fallen to a side full of niches such as the collapse of the geotechnical and did not realize here is that the shaking part of the bombing and a 2-ton block falls in the bedroom!) and is talked about the philosophy of things: it is just think of the ultimate limit state? In my opinion, no, it's fucked up, because if the structure holds helmet on your head and then you die a partition the same, but with the difference who designed the house has a clear conscience! But then you go down and discover that someone has built for himself and his family the bunker and the operation has successfully: two little lesson, and all saved! THIS 'structurally PREVENTION!
But there is not a structural one: the one that allows you to do the studies in the area rug, if not that they are doing now (see today's Gazette and on order), that after two months that the earth shakes for you and not the mountains four tents, as they did in Garfagnana. It is true that they had ass and they did a nice Passone evacuating the historic enter, but it is also true that there were no deaths. For the record the issue of Radon. While I was down, people did nothing but ask if it is true, and as if that were not enough dragons to disseminate false information: according to the calculations on 23 there was a new shock, the guy had even alerted the prefectures (or at least this entry DICOMAC turned in) for a possible shock even the 7th / 8th grade ... there have been two of the 4th and I do not think that will work the same because the sum is 8! This is not to say that radon is a bullshit question, however, careful to say things, because then people die when the family wants right account and reason, and when we go home to do assessments of the stability of buildings ( what geologist that I did and I apologize to the engineers that I read but I have asked and I did and now nobody died!), people will ask ...
And these notes controversy.
Technical notes to the next post. For convenience, I am creating a Picasa album to share some photos I took down, maybe someone had seen, but the earthquake-induced landslides in the surrounding Eagle but I do not think if anyone is crap and then I suggest them to you (the the rest did not give them grief it would have lost his Magone and then because the newspapers would have to take them into consideration?
Go down and you realize that even the shacks of more than 100 years, renovated or restored with the chains held up, those associated with the roofs have avoided that were opened as shoeboxes killing people. Going down you realize that the buildings where they are following rules of the rules (why the fuck the rules are held up !!!!!) (ultimate limit state and the protection of human life) ... Yes, if people do not respect the rules is dead. And then you realize even houses and buildings where building styles intersect: the stairs with a barrel vault with first floor and related rocks in the second brick and wooden roof, and here's the omelette! But the question is: whose fault is it?? Eventually, after a bit 'of reflection I realize that the fault is always ours technicians. Technicians who make the profession unscrupulous or those who work evil in the audience and giving a sloppy amnesties and permissions as if they were administrative fines. It 's always ours! And I say we because I work not bad, do the best every day, and even those who read me because I think it works badly, but since we can not tell who, when and how then do the right thing to say is that it fails the entire category and each of us, if only for a small piece and managers!
Yes, because when you write the technical standards for building the controversy arises over who can or can not do something (and then you realize that houses built on a perfect substrate and geotechnical engineer with expertise govern, true, but then had fallen to a side full of niches such as the collapse of the geotechnical and did not realize here is that the shaking part of the bombing and a 2-ton block falls in the bedroom!) and is talked about the philosophy of things: it is just think of the ultimate limit state? In my opinion, no, it's fucked up, because if the structure holds helmet on your head and then you die a partition the same, but with the difference who designed the house has a clear conscience! But then you go down and discover that someone has built for himself and his family the bunker and the operation has successfully: two little lesson, and all saved! THIS 'structurally PREVENTION!
But there is not a structural one: the one that allows you to do the studies in the area rug, if not that they are doing now (see today's Gazette and on order), that after two months that the earth shakes for you and not the mountains four tents, as they did in Garfagnana. It is true that they had ass and they did a nice Passone evacuating the historic enter, but it is also true that there were no deaths. For the record the issue of Radon. While I was down, people did nothing but ask if it is true, and as if that were not enough dragons to disseminate false information: according to the calculations on 23 there was a new shock, the guy had even alerted the prefectures (or at least this entry DICOMAC turned in) for a possible shock even the 7th / 8th grade ... there have been two of the 4th and I do not think that will work the same because the sum is 8! This is not to say that radon is a bullshit question, however, careful to say things, because then people die when the family wants right account and reason, and when we go home to do assessments of the stability of buildings ( what geologist that I did and I apologize to the engineers that I read but I have asked and I did and now nobody died!), people will ask ...
And these notes controversy.
Technical notes to the next post. For convenience, I am creating a Picasa album to share some photos I took down, maybe someone had seen, but the earthquake-induced landslides in the surrounding Eagle but I do not think if anyone is crap and then I suggest them to you (the the rest did not give them grief it would have lost his Magone and then because the newspapers would have to take them into consideration?
