Locating an earthquake and exploring the secrets of volcanoes through seismology and volcanology laboratories, educational tours and scientific cafés, learning about earthquakes and their effects, discovering how the two most active volcanoes in Italy, Etna and Stromboli, are monitored. These are just some of the many ScienzAperta initiatives organized by INGV from 8 to 19 May. This year the offices of Rome, Milan and Catania will participate in the event
The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) will open its doors to the public from 8 to 13 May with conferences, educational tours and screenings in its offices in Rome, Milan and Catania. The occasion, ScienzAperta 2017, now in its seventh edition.
Let's talk about Geophysics is the theme of the educational courses for schools, organized from 8 to 12 May at the Rome office. Children will be able to discover how to locate an earthquake and explore the secrets of volcanoes through seismology and volcanology laboratories. For the first time at the Moby Dick library (Via E. Ferrati, 3) a scientific café: on 9 May Earthquakes in Rome: beyond the legends, what does geology tell us? edited by Pierfrancesco Burrato, INGV researcher. The noise of the earth. The sound side of earthquakes: from listening to seismograms to the seismic rumble by Patrizia Tosi is the second scientific café to be held on 10 May at the INGV headquarters. On Thursday 11 May, however, there will be a training course for teachers, entitled Seismological research from monitoring networks to prevention. For the open day, on 13 May guided tours, workshops for all ages and scientific aperitifs will take place at the same time: from the Let's explore the secrets of volcanoes laboratory, up to the Multi-voiced scientific dialogue meeting where INGV researchers will discuss disasters of the past and those of the future.
The Etna Observatory (OE), the Catania section of the INGV, also participates with events, itineraries and guided tours. We will start on May 8 with an analysis of the New frontiers for volcanological monitoring: the use of drones during the 2017 eruption with the researchers of INGV-OE, passing through Rosanna Corsaro who will talk to us about Etna on May 15 and Stromboli: double interview with the most active volcanoes to learn about their history, activity and danger. Two photographic exhibitions will be held during the days: The colors of Etna by Alfio Amantia, INGV-OE photographer, while the Etnaviva Association, in collaboration with the Italian Alpine Club, will present Passione in black and white. The photos of the Etna mountaineers from the XNUMXs.
In Milan on 11 and 12 May appointment with The effects of earthquakes on the non-structural elements of buildings with the European project KnowRISK (https://knowriskproject.com/), top otdi among the actions that the European Parliament indicates for the prevention of earthquakes (https://knowriskproject.com/parliamentary-questions/) (https://knowriskproject.com/video-knowrisk-dissemination-activities-italy/). Among this year's novelties, building a vibrating platform to simulate the shaking of buildings, a shift in the seismic room and technologies that make use of Augmented Reality.
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