This morning, in the Conference Room of the Rome branch of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the cartoon "Mallet's vision" was presented, created by the Lucan Civil Protection Group and the "Fondazione con il Sud" in collaboration with Graziano Ferrari, INGV researcher, and illustrated by Lucan cartoonist Giuseppe Palumbo.
The cartoon uses the great expressive power of sequential art to retrace the journey that the Irish engineer Robert Mallet, father of seismology, made in Italy in the aftermath of the strong earthquake that hit the south in 1857 and which allowed him to experimentally verify the his theory of earthquake dynamics presented a few years earlier at the Royal Irish Academy.
The presentation of the volume was attended by the Irish Ambassador to Italy, Colm Ó Floinn, the cartoonist Giuseppe Palumbo, the President of the Lucano Group of Civil Protection, Giuseppe Priore and the President of INGV, Carlo Doglioni, who has Once underlined the importance of Mallet's work for subsequent studies of the propagation of seismic waves.