Hello Mateo:
Would you mind explaining to us who you are? I am not quite into
earthquake hazard so I am sorry not to recognize your name. In what
capacity you are writing this Letter?
Thanks,
Victor Bense
Matteo Levi wrote:
> Dear all,
> we appreciate a lot INGV work for risk reduction in Italy, indeed.
> But there is a letter at www.mi.ingv.it/open_letter/ you may be asked
> to sign or receive or could have received, stating:
> "indicted scientists...for manslaughter...prosecuting scientists for
> failing to do something they cannot do yet - predict earthquakes"
> You should consider not to sign and inform our colleagues the hidden
> risk inside it.
> Just after the prosecution, as a procedure required by law (i.e. "atto
> dovuto") Italian Premier suddenly attacked the judges.
> Please, be well-aware that judges never talked about they did not
> yet-predict earthquakes nor manslaughter.
> Personnel in Commissione Grandi Rischi, the Comitee where some
> scientists were (but not all the scientific community involved in
> geosciences) has got the task by law, to say what to do in case of a
> risk having known the more about. E.g. they should have read the Book
> on regional risk by prof. Barberi himself, the papers by Abruzzo
> Engineering about building weakness (every building they studied about
> fell down) and they shoud have well known De Luca G. S. Marcucci et
> al, 2005(*) explaining some year before an amplification effect under
> l'Aquila town. They should have known. For civil defence purposes they
> have a budget around 25 millions euros a year (and around 80 millions
> euros a year more for research ministry), just enough to stay some day
> and night in l'Aquila and try saying something more. How much money do
> you have for your studies?
> They should have said "we cannot predict BUT please pay attention",
> instead they had a really fast meeting, less than half an hour!
> "we cannot predict but there can be or not an earthquake, you can come
> back home". Someone trusted and died under.
> There had been having earthquakes from 6 months and more. Half an hour
> and escape from l'Aquila just one week before is hard to understand as
> 308 people died.
> So, please, do not trust everything you read. Please, get full
> informed about.
> That letter will be sent to the President of Italian Republic so to
> escape from an ordinary trial and strike fear into Judges (as He is
> the chief in charge of all the Italian Judges).
>
> Berlusconi's way is getting fashion: a simple procedure required by
> law is getting an attack to the Science.
> Whose side are you on? I hope the Science one.
>
> Please, realise we are in Italy and Mr. Boschi has been president from
> 27 years (Fascism lasted only 20 years).
> Maybe he loves to reach 30 years as a record?
>
>
> (*)De Luca G., S. Marcucci, G. Milana, T. Sanò (2005). Evidence of
> Low-Frequency Amplification in the City of L’Aquila, Central Italy,
> through a Multidisciplinary Approach Including Strong- and Weak-Motion
> Data, Ambient Noise, and Numerical Modeling. Bulletin of the
> Seismological Society of America, Aug 2005; 95: 1469 – 1481.
>
> Some references:
> http://www.primadanoi.it/notizie/26906-Negligenza-imprudenza-e-imperizia-cos%EC-la-Procura-incastra-la-Grandi-Rischi
> http://www.primadanoi.it/notizie/26876-Indagata-la-Grandi-Rischi-magistrati-disprezzano-la-scienza
>
> Please, share it as a correct way to let everyone involved informed so
> to help decide.
>
> Matteo Levi
>
>
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