Newsletter n.9
INGV newsletter | no.9 | November | 2020 | fourteenth year
- Written by Staff
November 23, 1980, everything collapsed, but not the soul, the pride and the courage of my land!
THE EDITORIAL
Forty years ago, at 19:34 on 23 November 1980, the strongest Italian earthquake of the last 100 years of magnitude 6.9 shook Irpinia: about 3000 victims and 280.000 displaced. An enormous damage in terms of social and economic disintegration, which also led to a demographic decline in those areas and a cost of over 50 billion euros. It was an event that radically changed scientific research and stimulated the right response of the State under the strong words of President Sandro Pertini: thanks to the intuition and determination of the Hon. Giuseppe Zamberletti, the National Civil Protection was born.
L'GUEST OF HONOR
There are events that mark a before and an after, such as the Irpinia earthquake of 23 November 1980 which marks the birth of a real national civil protection, through the commitment of the then Commissioner Giuseppe Zamberletti. Today the Civil Protection is an organized structure ready to intervene in a very short time for any emergency in the area and its value is also recognized internationally. Forty years after that tragic watershed event, we interviewed the Head of the Civil Protection Department Angelo Borrelli who told us how he experienced that earthquake and what has changed since then.
Seismic monitoring at sea, a resource for RSN
Lesser Antilles, the volcanoes of the Caribbean Sea
A RESEARCHER'S LIFE
Name: Giovanna Lucia Piangiamore
Years: 44
Qualification: III level researcher
Location: Portovenere Rome Section 2
Field of activity: research activity in the geophysics field of exploration of geopotential fields (magnetism, gravimetry) and in the field of science communication (didactic-informative experiments such as geo-events, geo-activities, laboratories, scientific team, role-playing and board games, educational video games, exhibitions, active discovery paths, museum education, ...)
Favorite colour: Bluette
INTERVIEW A
"Giovanna, next time we'll split this interview in two, ok?" I could have told her but I didn't, because Giovanna Lucia Piangiamore is like that. A volcano full of enthusiasm, ideas, all shaken by an irrepressible gab. She floods you with her desire to achieve and passion which, we always repeat, is the tool that moves everything and gives you that extra impetus to do well in life. Paladin of the weakest, always ready for advice, a Friend with a capital A for those who manage to get into her good graces... But let's find out who Giovanna is: you will find a (perhaps) unpublished portrait of a woman who obtained (in terms of football speaking) all on the pitch, giving his all for himself and his team, fighting for every ball… Minute after minute… Without ever sitting on the bench or in the stands.
LAB EXPERIENCES
The Paleoclimatology Laboratory of Pisa
From the cave to the Lab. This is the journey of the concretion samples that are analyzed in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory of the Pisa Section of the INGV. The researchers, in fact, here take care of taking material from the stalagmites of the caves to analyze it and study the various levels of growth with the aim of deepening the knowledge of the climatic variations that occurred up to hundreds of thousands of years ago. To learn more about this process, we interviewed the head of the Lab, the INGV technologist Ilaria Isola.
THE EARTH TELLS
Forty years after the Irpinia earthquake: the interview with Professor Roberto Scarpa
40 years have passed since that November 23rd, when at 19:34 a very strong earthquake struck Irpinia and Basilicata. We wanted to remember this event with the words of those who, in those days, were at the places of the tragedy and who never stopped studying that earthquake. In our virtual living room we invited Professor Roberto Scarpa, Full Professor of Solid Earth Geophysics at the University of Salerno and INGV Board Member, who told us his precious testimony in this interview.
IT HAPPENED TODAY
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Between rules and courts. The Legal Affairs Sector of INGV
A Sector that "accompanies" the activities of INGV from many points of view, from administrative disputes to those more connected with the mission and the scientific role of the Institute. We are talking about the Legal Affairs and Litigation Sector which, with a 360-degree view of the Body's activities, is responsible for following and supporting the administrative, technical and scientific profiles of INGV throughout the national territory. We interviewed the lawyer Pasquale Guidace, who has been at the head of the INGV legal area for years, to better understand the role and functions of the togas of the Institute and find out what is hidden between Codes and files.
Events
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November 2020 | Number 9 | fourteenth year
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- President's editorial
- The earthquake of November 23, 1980: an interview with the Head of the Civil Protection Department, Angelo Borrelli
- Seismic monitoring at sea, a resource for RSN
- Lesser Antilles, the volcanoes of the Caribbean Sea
- EXOPLANETS: discovering Space
- Giovanna Lucia Piangiamore
- The Paleoclimatology Laboratory of Pisa
- The Micromilling machine
- Forty years after the Irpinia earthquake: the interview with Professor Roberto Scarpa
- in the month of November
- Between rules and courts. The Legal Affairs Sector of INGV
- past appointments