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Hi Dave (and all those who read/wrote about this ongoing disaster),
Yes, when you hope you can start over, you get hit again, so you're always
in a suspended/depressing state.
There are lots of structural engineers at work (and the authorities are
hiring all those available), but you cannot check all buildings in a few
days, so
someone gets back at home/work in buildings showing little/no damage, and
then the quake hits again and someone else is killed again. And then you
have to start evaluating everything as you did nothing before.
There are no big cities in the most-damaged area (although Modena, Bologna
and Ferrara are all within 30-40 kms from there), but there are countless
small towns/villages one after another, rich in historical (and usually not
so safe) buildings/churches.
However, the worst and most surprising thing is the number of industrial
sheds which collapsed (usually partially, but enough for killing workers and
stopping manufacturing) in one of the richest and more active areas in
Italy. They are mostly small companies, to which a destroyed building
usually means nothing left and out of business. Sure some seismic rules have
been eluded there...
Dario
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From: David Mann
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:12 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Earthquake (more)
On May 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
Update: ground keeps shaking and shaking over here. Today around 9 a.m. we
experienced another major quake (shake and thunder, Richter 5.8), around
the same power of the main one we suffered 9 days ago (Richter 5.9 then),
plus several lesser shakes in the 3-to-4 range.
More historical buildings and churches are down now, and more people at
work were killed under industrial sheds which collapsed.
I was dismayed to hear about that on the radio this morning. Just when you
think it's all settling down you get hit again, and I know well how
frustrating that is. Hopefully things will sort themselves out soon. Do
they have structural engineers evaluating buildings before allowing people
back in?
It's been very quiet down here for a few months but we did have a 5.2 last
Friday. I didn't notice it as I was out running at the time.
Dave
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