Understand the earthquakes with which our peninsula is forced to live, but also know and internalize the right behavior to adopt in the event of an earthquake. This and more at the TERREMOTI exhibition, in which INGV is a partner, from 29 October 2016 to 30 April 2017 in Milan
From 29 October 2016 to 30 April 2017 the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) will take part in the TERREMOTI exhibition. Origins, stories and secrets of the movements of the Earth.
The exhibition, hosted at the Natural History Museum of Milan, is promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan - Culture and the Natural History Museum of Milan, with the Vulcano Explorations scientific dissemination association and Silvana Editoriale.
A new opportunity to discover our planet, the Earthquakes exhibition will help visitors to learn more about natural events, the causes that trigger them, where they occur and how often, and the ways in which seismic waves propagate, but also to understand which are the behavioral rules to be adopted to limit earthquake damage.
The exhibition develops through 7 rooms (anatomy of the planet Earth, movements of the continents and the earth's crust, faults and earthquakes, tsunamis, cover-drop-hold on prevention, the historical tools of the geophysicist, structural defense against earthquakes) in a fascinating made up of spectacular images, satellite photographs from NASA, large dioramas, films, a tank in which a tsunami wave is simulated, a model of the seismic table, seismographs and ancient instrumentation, set up by the SISMOS Functional Unit of the INGV, and modern.
One section will be dedicated to the most important earthquakes of the past, while another section will concern tsunamis and will see the presence of a buoy scale model for the surveillance of these phenomena, currently used in Stromboli.
Lastly, great importance will be given to the theme of prevention, both in the engineering field, in relation to construction with anti-seismic criteria and the use of cutting-edge materials, and in terms of knowledge of the most innovative tools capable of protecting in the event of earthquake. An exhaustive and fascinating exhibition that will help to understand in depth the earthquakes with which our peninsula is forced to live, but also to know and internalize the right behaviors to adopt in the event of an earthquake.
The exhibition is linked to experiential workshops and educational activities, with personalized itineraries based on the different ages of the users
Reconstruction of the seismic pillar of the Casamicciola geodynamic observatory in 1895, with original instruments