6.3 Earthquake Hits Italy

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Reuters AlertNet - Scientists dismiss prediction of Italy earthquake

Scientists dismiss prediction of Italy earthquake

07 Apr 2009 18:25:14 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Phil Stewart
ROME, April 7 (Reuters) -

Earthquakes like the one that killed more than 200 people in Italy this week are still impossible to predict, and a local scientist's claims to have done so should be treated with caution, geophysicists say.


Gioacchino Giuliani is at the centre of a debate about the limits of seismology after Italian officials shrugged off his warnings last month that a devastating earthquake in the central Abruzzo region was imminent.

In fact Giuliani, who works at the National Institute of Physics, was even reported to police for spreading panic.

While many Italians are now more than ready to listen to whatever Giuliani has to say, geophysicists in Europe and the United States remain sceptical of his claims to have discovered an effective early-warning system.

Although scientists say it's easy to say where big quakes are likely to happen, pinning down the timing can't be done, at least not yet.

"It's a very humbling field to be in ... We cannot predict earthquakes," said Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

"To predict an earthquake, whatever it is that we're using would have to be a reliable indicator ... And no one has gotten close to that."

Giuliani based his forecast on emissions of radon gas. The theory goes that the gas is released as the fault line adjusts itself before a major earthquake.

"We can know when an earthquake is coming," Giuliani said in one of the flurry of interviews he has given to Italian media over the past 24 hours.

"To those who have not believed me, I'll just say that a scientist's dictionary should not contain the word 'impossible'. History has proven that to us."

MISSING LINK
But Giuliani isn't the first to look at radon gas. It's been studied since the 1970s and no research has yet proven it as a reliable detection tool, scientists told Reuters.

"There isn't a definitive link between radon gas measurements and earthquake occurrence," said Brian Baptie at the British Geological Survey. "Sometimes people have measured radon gas and no earthquakes have occurred, and vice-versa."

Giuliani's forecast was far from perfect. He believed the quake would have struck the town of Sulmona, which is more than 50 km (30 miles) south of L'Aquila. He also got the date wrong, predicting the quake would strike several days earlier.

The head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, Guido Bertolaso, told reporters that if they had listened to Giuliani, they probably would have evacuated the residents of Sulmona to L'Aquila just in time for the earthquake.

Still, Giuliani's claims have been a headache for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has told Italians that seismology still can't "predict 'the when' of quakes".

"What were we supposed to do, take 300,000 people and tell them to stay outside their homes for an open-ended period? There's no way," Berlusconi told RAI state television.

Radon gas is just one of many avenues explored by scientists, who have looked at everything from how cockroaches behave on fault lines to sudden changes in water levels and temperature as possible tools to predict earthquakes.

Stern said if Giuliani wanted to be taken seriously by the scientific community, he should publish his work and put it up to review.

"This physicist from Italy has every right to pursue something, as do the cockroach people. But we all have to subject our work to the same standards of review," Stern said.

(Additional reporting by Gavin Jones; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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Reuters AlertNet - Aftershock kills at least one in Italy--agency

Aftershock kills at least one in Italy--agency

07 Apr 2009 18:45:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
ROME, April 7 (Reuters) -

A 5.6 magnitude aftershock that struck the central Italian area devastated by Monday's earthquake has killed at least one person, Italy's ANSA news agency reported on Tuesday, without citing a source.


The aftershock -- the most powerful since Monday's 5.8 to 6.3 magnitude quake -- struck the Abruzzo region at 7.47 p.m. (1747 GMT).

It felled structures in the already battered medieval city of L'Aquila and was felt as far away as Rome, where furniture shook on the upper floors of buildings, witnesses said.

(Editing by Tim Pearce)
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Reuters AlertNet - REFILE-Italy seeks survivors, prepares to bury quake dead

REFILE-Italy seeks survivors, prepares to bury quake dead

07 Apr 2009 23:37:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Refiles, making clear funerals taking place on Wednesday)

* Death toll rises to 235, more than 1,000 injured
* First burial scheduled for Wednesday
* Strong aftershocks hit area, at least one victim reported
* 20-year-old girl pulled from rubble after 42 hours

By Deepa Babington and Antonella Cinelli
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 8 (Reuters) -

Rescuers searched by lamplight in freezing temperatures for a second night for survivors of a quake which killed at least 235 people in central Italy, while relatives prepared to bury the first of the dead.


Thousands of survivors of Italy's worst quake in three decades passed a fitful night in tent villages as a series of strong aftershocks hit the mountainous region of Abruzzo, hampering rescue efforts and causing at least one more death.

The strongest tremor since Monday's quake toppled buildings, including parts of the basilica and the station, as the sun set on the historic mountain city of L'Aquila, which bore the brunt of the disaster in the early hours of Monday.

L'Aquila's mayor said the 5.6 magnitude aftershock left one resident dead while in Rome, 100 km (60 miles) to the west, furniture shook in the upper floors of buildings. A 76-year-old Roman man was reported to have died of a heart-attack.

"In the last two nights, I've slept three hours at most. I feel physically and mentally tired from the lack of sleep and the fear," said Ilaria Ciani, 35, spending the night in a large blue tent at a survivors camp in a sports field near L'Aquila.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has declared a national emergency and sent troops to the area, set up 20 tent camps and 16 field kitchens to provide hot food and accommodation for 14,000 people.

Hundreds of emergency workers, many of them volunteers, used mechanical diggers and their bare hands to remove piles of rubble in L'Aquila and nearby villages devastated by the quake.

The death toll rose steadily throughout the day but rescuers burst into applause when a 20-year-old girl was found alive 42 hours after the quake in the ruins of a four-storey building.

"A rescue like this is worth six months work," said Claudio, a fireman from Venice.

At least 235 bodies were being stored in a makeshift mortuary at a school for Italy's Finance Police outside L'Aquila, local media reported.

The first funeral of a victim was due to take place on Wednesday, in the town of Loreto Aprutino, led by the archbishop of Pescara. Some 1,000 people remain injured, about 100 seriously, and fewer than 50 were missing.

Many of the victims were students at L'Aquila's university. A fireman from the port of Pescara who came to help rescue efforts collapsed in tears after unearthing the body of his stepdaughter, who was studying there.

Working by floodlight, rescuers used a crane to gradually dismantle a ruined university dormitory in the hope of finding survivors. As darkness fell, workers dragged out the bodies of two of the four students still missing.

FOREIGN SOLIDARITY
Authorities estimate 17,000 people have lost their homes, leaving them facing a grim Easter weekend. With many local churches badly damaged, people prepared to celebrate the feast in makeshift chapels in the tent villages.

Berlusconi, whose government already faces a huge public debt, said he would try to access hundreds of millions of euros in EU disaster funds to rebuild Abruzzo within two years.

Shows of solidarity came from home and abroad, with U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia's Vladimir Putin among the leaders calling Berlusconi to express sympathy and offer aid.

The prime minister has said Italy did not require foreign aid, but opposition leaders have urged him to reconsider, in the first sign of political divisions over the disaster.

Italian soccer teams said revenue from this weekend's matches would be sent to help victims. Universities and newspapers throughout the country took collections, while hotels provided thousands of cheap rooms for survivors and rescuers.

Officials said the quake would severely affect the region's economy, much of which is based on tourism, agriculture and small, family-run businesses. Police increased their patrols on the streets amid reports of looting of homes and shops.

Some residents and experts expressed anger that even supposedly earthquake-proof modern buildings had collapsed.

"In California, an earthquake like this one would not have killed a single person," said Franco Barberi, head of a committee assessing quake risks at the Civil Protection Agency.

Monday's quake was particularly lethal because it struck shortly after 3:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) as residents slept. Flattening houses, centuries-old churches and other buildings in 26 cities and towns, it was the worst since November 1980, when some 2,735 people died in southern Italy.

(Writing by Daniel Flynn; additional reporting by Rome bureau; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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Reuters AlertNet - Italian quake turns bucolic town into ghostly ruin

Italian quake turns bucolic town into ghostly ruin

08 Apr 2009 14:26:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Deepa Babington

ONNA, Italy, April 8 (Reuters) -

It took only a few minutes to turn this tranquil town of farmers and artisans into a desolate spectacle of horses and hens wandering aimlessly amid a a tangle of stone and steel.


After 1,000 years of being called home, Onna was no more.

The earthquake that struck central Italy on Monday killed about 40 residents, or 13 percent of the population, making it one of the towns worst hit. Firemen said 90 percent of houses -- or what's left of them -- will have to be razed to the ground.

"The most spectacular thing about the quake was not even the impact but just the sound of the entire town crumbling around us," said Paolo Ferroni, 60, who managed to escape with his wife but is now homeless.

His son, who lived nearby, escaped by tying sheets together and lowering himself from his apartment window, he said.

"See this house here right next to mine? One woman died there. There, two houses down, another person died. And there next to it, three people died. And there, see that heap in the field? 50 sheep died there," he said, pointing to a row of wrecked houses and a plot of land in front.

The few residents still around the deserted town each had a story of terror to tell and could count relatives who perished. The national death toll rose to 250 on Wednesday. About 17,000 people have been made homeless.

"We were sleeping, and out of nowhere came a loud roar," said Virgilio Colajani, 70. "I ran out and there was a woman over 90 standing on her balcony yelling 'Help, help' while her helper begged for a ladder. Another man was on his knees in the darkness, going through a little book with a light, searching for the phone number of his son. His wife died."

The head of one of the fire units on the scene, Giovanni Riccobene, recounted how his men became emotional when they pulled out the dead bodies of two brothers aged three and five, still in their pyjamas, with their dead father.

Their mother, who survived, had to be sedated, he said.

"Seeing those little children was so painful that it cannot be quantified," said Riccobene.

"WE'RE ALL RELATIVES"
In their tightly knit community without a restaurant or cafe, residents led a tranquil life until tragedy struck -- it was the worst since 1944, when Onna was the scene of a Nazi massacre in which 16 residents were killed.

Many faithfully flocked to the local church -- whose belltower was seriously damaged -- each Sunday before they retired to their houses for lunch, they said.

"This is a small village, we're all practically relatives," said Colajani, who has lived here all his life.

Many residents grew their own vegetables or bred animals or poultry, some of which were the only signs of life in the town after survivors were dispatched to stay in tents nearby. A few dogs could be seen tethered to trees, horses grazed in little plots of land, and black and white hens clucked away in a coop.

A lone metal cross surrounded by red tulips stood at one side of the town. Swallows and blackbirds sang in trees with white blossom, completing a surreal atmosphere of devastation surrounded by bucolic beauty.

Only a few houses made of reinforced concrete survived.

Colajani's relative Antonio welled up with tears as he stared at what was left of his cream-coloured house with brown shutters. Half the building had caved onto the street below. He managed to escape when two youths put up a ladder next to his window, but his sister and her son-in-law perished.

"It just took five minutes to reduce everything to this," the 79-year old said, as a brown, shaggy dog with no owner in sight lay down nearby with drooped ears. "Even the dog knows something went horribly wrong here. It's almost like he's waiting for someone to say, 'Come, let's go away from here.'"

(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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Italian Earthquake Efforts Shift to Rebuilding, Burying Dead - Bloomberg.com

Italian Earthquake Efforts Shift to Rebuilding, Burying Dead

By Adam Freeman and Andrew Davis
April 8 (Bloomberg) --

Relief efforts in Italy have begun to shift to burying the dead and rebuilding as hopes fade of finding survivors from the country?s deadliest earthquake in almost 30 years.


The death toll from the 6.3-magnitude quake reached 260 and about 28,000 people are homeless, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said at a news conference from L?Aquila, near the quake?s epicenter, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Rome. A state-organized funeral mass will be held on April 10, Good Friday, he said.

?I am moved by the fearlessness shown by the fire fighters and military personnel that have risked their lives,? to pull people from the rubble, Berlusconi said. ?It shows that there are still courageous people in Italy.?

The last survivor to have been found was rescued at about 10 p.m. yesterday. Eleonora Calesini, a 20-year-old communications student from Rimini, was pulled alive from the rubble of the five-story apartment building where she lived, more than 40 hours after the quake. Hours later the body of her roommate was recovered from the wreckage.

?The more that time passes, the less chance there is, but there is still hope,? Luca Cari, spokesman for the national fire department, said in an interview in L?Aquila this morning. ?It?s not just an operation to recover bodies.?

Aftershocks Rumble
Berlusconi didn?t give a number for how many people are still unaccounted for, though yesterday the Civil Protection Agency put the figure at 15. More than 150 people have been pulled from the rubble since the quake hit at 3:30 a.m. on April 6, even as aftershocks, some as strong as magnitude 5.6, sent rescuers scrambling for safety and rattled buildings as far away as Rome.

?I can?t sleep, I keep running out of my house,? said Vincenzina Evangelista, 51, whose house in L?Aquila partially collapsed in the quake. ?It seems the tremors never end.?

More than 10,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed, according to initial government estimates, and Berlusconi said that the process of inspecting properties still standing would begin tomorrow. The government will need as much as two months to fully gauge the damage caused by the quake, Berlusconi said. Initial estimates by the government indicated the damages would top 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion)

The total damage may be between 2 and 3 billion euros, with insured losses of 200 to 400 million euros, AIR Worldwide estimated in a report yesterday.

Tent Villages
Berlusconi toured L?Aquila, the biggest city in the 600- square kilometer area hit by the quake, to assess the damage and greet some of the thousands left homeless. More than 17,000 people were being sheltered in the 31 tent villages, with another 10,000 being put up in hotels in the region.

At one of the four camps set up on a soccer field near Piazza d?Armi in L?Aquila, clowns entertained children whose homes and schools were leveled in the quake. Donated clothing was piled in mounds for the survivors, many of whom fled their homes in the middle of the night, often in just their pajamas.

?Our house is in such bad condition that it?s going to have to be torn down,? said Michela Pietropaoli, 38, who is sharing a tent with eight others and two dogs. ?We may be here for months or years.?

The government plans to build a new town next to L?Aquila, Berlusconi said, as damage is so extensive, particularly in the historic center, that it may prove easier to start anew. In the town of Onna, one of the hardest hit by the quake, almost every building was damaged or destroyed and more than 10 percent of the town?s 300 residents were killed.

Jail Evacuated
It wasn?t just the older buildings and Renaissance and Medieval churches in the province of L?Aquila that were damaged by the quake. Newer construction, including L?Aquila?s main hospital, the central government?s administration building in the region and a top-security jail were all damaged. Some 140 prisoners had to be transferred, including one of Italy?s most notorious criminals -- Nadia Desdemona Lioce -- convicted of murdering a government economic adviser in 1999 in a killing claimed by the Red Brigades terrorist group.

Berlusconi so far has turned down almost all the offers for international aid, saying Italy has sufficient resources to deal with the emergency and reconstruction, which will take at least two years. He called on governments to fund the restoration of monuments in the area, which is dotted with hundreds of churches some dating back to the Middle Ages that have now been damaged in the quake.

Donations Offered
Telecom Italia SpA?s non-profit foundation will consider making a donation of 1 million euros to restore damage to the region?s artistic heritage damaged by the earthquake, and 200,000 euros for the local population. Other Italian companies offered aid and banks set up accounts to accept donations for the victims.

?The government is studying various measures including social benefits for the needy and unemployed, fiscal measures and a moratorium on mortgage payments to give people relief,? Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said today in an interview.

Italy?s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament, has asked its 630 members to donate a minimum of 1,000 euros of their salary to aid the earthquake victim. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italy?s former president, will give all his wages, newspaper Il Sole 24 said today.

To contact the reporters on this story: Andrew Davis in Rome at abdavis@bloomberg.net; Adam L. Freeman in L?Aquila.
Last Updated: April 8, 2009 10:40 EDT
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Reuters AlertNet - Italy earthquake rescuers hit by aftershocks

Italy earthquake rescuers hit by aftershocks

09 Apr 2009 02:36:41 GMT
Source: Reuters

* Hopes fade for finding quake survivors
* 17,000 homeless sleeping in tent camps
* Damage estimated at 2-3 billion euros

(Releads with aftershocks)

By Silvia Aloisi and Antonella Cinelli
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 9 (Reuters) -

A series of aftershocks disrupted rescuers in central Italy early on Thursday as they picked through rubble for a third night in their search for survivors of Monday's earthquake that killed 272 people.


One tremor measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit at 2:53 a.m. (0053 GMT) according to the U.S. Geological Survey, shaking the medieval mountain city of L'Aquila and nearby villages. It caused damage to buildings but there were no immediate reports of any more victims although it was felt in Rome, some 100 km (60 miles) to the west.

The aftershocks terrified many of the survivors -- 17,000 of whom stayed in tent villages for another cold night after being made homeless. Rescuers acknowledge hope of finding anyone alive under the devastated city are fading with every hour.

"This city has been annihilated and I don't think we'll ever go back to that house, our house. It's full of ghosts and fear," said Claudio Gaudieri, 53, sitting in a tent camp in L'Aquila.

His wife sobbed on the phone, and Guadieri held her hand.

"We lost everything," he said.

The death toll climbed to 272 after rescuers pulled more bodies from the collapsed buildings. Relatives began holding private funerals for the dead.

A mass state funeral and a national day of mourning are expected to be held on Friday.

At least 16 children, including a five-month-old baby, were killed by Monday's 5.8 to 6.3 magnitude earthquake.

Rescue workers haven't found any survivors in at least 24 hours. The last person rescued, a 20-year-old woman, was pulled out the rubble late on Tuesday.

"We're human beings, like the people who are still under there. So we're doing everything possible," said one rescuer, walking among the rubble in the historic centre.

"But it's clear that after 72 hours, hope is fading."

The interior minister said searches would continue at least until Easter.

"As long as we know that there are people under the rubble, we will keep searching even if we're sure they're dead. Families need to know what happened to their loved ones," a fireman said.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has declared an emergency and sent in thousands of troops, visited L'Aquila on Wednesday for a third day. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was due on Thursday.

One estimate for insurers put the damage to Italy's economy at 2 billion to 3 billion euros ($1.5 billion to $2.2 billion).

Berlusconi said in total 28,000 people had lost their homes in the earthquake, with 17,000 now living in tents and the rest in free hotel rooms or staying with family.

Officials say the quake will have a huge impact in a region which mostly lives off tourism, farming and family businesses.Survivors face a grim Easter. With many local churches badly damaged, people prepared to celebrate in makeshift chapels.

The government and hotel owners offered free shelter for the homeless in hotels on the Adriatic coast.

(Writing by Phil Stewart; additional reporting by Reuters Rome bureau; editing by Matthew Jones)
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Reuters AlertNet - Grim Easter of uncertainty for Italy quake homeless

Grim Easter of uncertainty for Italy quake homeless

09 Apr 2009 14:29:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Silvia Aloisi
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 9 (Reuters) -

A chocolate Easter egg from aid workers brought a weary smile to the face of Maria Pia Carpentieri, one of thousands of people left homeless by Italy's worst earthquake in nearly 30 years.


"It's Easter in a few days, and this will give us a sense of normality," said the 68-year-old, sheltering at a camp in the medieval city of L'Aquila, which bore the brunt of the disaster.

After fleeing her house with a few treasured possessions when the quake hit on Monday, Carpentieri has been living in a tent with her son Luca and six other people who until now were perfect strangers.

She carried the egg back to share it with them, along with less festive essentials -- a bar of soap, bottled water, biscuits and toilet paper.

"It's very hard being here. There's no running water and the portable toilets are filthy," she said of the camp, now home to 2,000 people, some of them with family pets. "But at least we're alive. We must thank God for that."

Sitting on a makeshift bed in front of her, bleary-eyed Pierluigi Di Marco also found comfort in religion. He said a priest had visited the tent city on Wednesday offering communion wafers to the faithful.

"He told us all our beautiful churches have collapsed but he still wanted to wish us happy Easter," Di Marco said.

With some two-thirds of L'Aquila in ruins, neither Di Marco nor Carpentieri knew how long they would stay at the camp, and whether their houses would be repaired or demolished.

BIG AFTERSHOCKS
Inside the walled city centre, cordoned off by police after a third night of big aftershocks, Stefano Dedonadis was left in no doubt about the fate of his family flat. The front wall of the two-storey apartment had simply disintegrated.

"That's my parents' bedroom," he said, pointing to a desolate spectacle of wooden furniture covered by rubble and a dangling ceiling lamp.

Dedonadis and his parents have been sleeping in their car, waiting for rescue workers to help them recover clothes and other basics from the house. "We feel powerless," he said.

On the sidewalks of deserted streets, ordinary objects strewn in the rubble bore witness to shattered lives -- a framed family picture, a woolly hat, a child's stuffed dog.

Back at the camp, eight-month pregnant Stefania Cantalini said her new baby filled her with hope, but she also felt anguish about the future.

"My fear is that after the media glare fades, the politicians will forget their promises and we'll be left to ourselves," she said. "My fear is I'll spend the rest of my life in a tent."
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Italian Quake Survivors Settle Into Tents, Await Rain (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Italian Quake Survivors Settle Into Tents, Await Rain (Update2

By Adam L. Freeman and Steve Scherer
April 9 (Bloomberg) --

With falling temperatures and heavy rain forecast for today, 20,000 survivors of Italy?s deadliest earthquake in almost three decades settled into large blue tents for what may be weeks or months.


?We hope not to stay here very long, but where can we go?? said Pietro Musumeci, a retired military officer, who said he doubts he, his wife, his son and his chow dog will be allowed to return to their damaged home. ?We have nothing but the clothes on our back.?

Musumeci is one of as many as 20,000 people living in 31 camps set up in the region of Abruzzo after the April 6 temblor that devastated the city of L?Aquila. Thunder storms are forecast to move into the region today, temperatures dipped overnight to as low as 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6 Celsius), and there is still no running water for drinking or washing.

While Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi two days ago said the tent residents should consider the experience a ?camping trip,? some of the inhabitants are concerned about how long they?ll be roughing it.

?We could be here for months or years,? said Michela Pietropaoli, 38, who?s sharing a tent with her parents, her two dogs, and five other people. ?We need water to wash with, we need lights, and we?re cold at night.?

Death and Destruction
A 6.3-magnitude quake struck Abruzzo at around 3:30 a.m. three days ago, killing 279 people and leaving 28,000 homeless. About 10,000 people are staying, at state expense, in one of 171 hotels on the Adriatic coast, though the amount of time they can remain there is unclear. Others have gone to friends or relatives outside the quake zone. The rest are in the makeshift settlements, their cars, or in their own tents pitched in backyards.

?Reconstruction will take some time and it?s unthinkable that people stay in tents,? Berlusconi said yesterday as he surveyed damage in L?Aquila, a city of more than 68,000 hit hard by the quake. ?We?re going to have to find other places? for people to live, he said.

Today, architects and engineers will begin inspections of private buildings and then public ones, Berlusconi announced yesterday. It may take two months to complete the inspections, he said. Those whose homes are structurally intact will be allowed to go back. Many won?t be so lucky.

?Cracks in the Walls?
The authorities ?aren?t telling us how long we?ll be here,? said Claudio Nobile, 73, as he stood in line for lunch at one of four tent camps in L?Aquila. ?My house isn?t habitable, and I?m afraid to go back because of the cracks in the walls.?

The improvised settlements still need sleeping bags, blankets, trash bags, toilet paper and non-perishable foods, according to Alessandro Moni, head of the Civil Protection Agency?s volunteer program. Chemical toilets have been brought in, and showers should arrive soon, he said. Heaters for the tents have yet to arrive.

?We?re looking for some room to hold Mass,? said Antonio Rulli, 49, of the Civil Protection Agency, at L?Aquila?s Piazza D?Armi camp. ?And we?re building a dining area.?

Macaroni with a choice of tomato or cream sauce was served free of charge yesterday at Piazza D?Armi, along with bread, fruit and water. It was a sunny, warm spring day, and as the aftershocks continued to shake the ground beneath their feet, some Piazza D?Armi residents seemed resigned to their situation.

?The food here is better than what I?m used to getting,? said Nobile, smiling and causing chuckles in the lunch line.

?Let it rain,? said Shkelqim Kanushaj, 52, an Albanian who has lived in Italy since 1991. Kanushaj, a pizza and bread baker, is staying in a tent with his wife and three kids. ?Things were better before the earthquake, but life goes on.?

To contact the reporters on this story: Steve Scherer in Rome at sscherer@bloomberg.net; Adam L. Freeman in L?Aquila at afreeman5@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: April 9, 2009 09:43 EDT
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Reuters AlertNet - Italy to hold state funeral for earthquake victims

Italy to hold state funeral for earthquake victims

09 Apr 2009 22:43:45 GMT
Source: Reuters

* 200 coffins to be laid out for state funeral
* Rescue work draws to a close
* Region's economy shattered

[Despite the defensive attitude of local builders and entrepreneurs is clear that critical infrastructures was not built according regulations; a recently opened hospital (2000) is unable to operate because damaged at 90%; several bridges collapsed or damaged severely, especially one in a main route; recent photos showed how materials employed for pylons were unsuitable for a seismic area. People tends to avoid liability and calls for the unpredictability of disasters when law and regulations have been violated for decades. Very sad. - msIOH.]

By Silvia Aloisi and Antonella Cinelli
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 10 (Reuters) -

Italy holds a state funeral on Friday for 281 victims of its worst earthquake in three decades and will then turn its thoughts to rebuilding the lives of the thousands made homeless.


On a national day of mourning about 200 coffins will be laid out on the parade ground of a police academy in the mountain city of L'Aquila for the funeral at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT). About 1,600 bereaved relatives are expected to attend.

"I'll be there," said 30-year-old Angelo Dania, whose house was destroyed by the 6.3 magnitude quake that hit the central Italian region of Abruzzo early on Monday as residents slept.

"I am worried about my house but, in the end, I am the lucky one," he said. "I could have been one of them."

Rescue efforts were drawing to an end as hopes of pulling any more survivors from the rubble faded. "The search is almost over," said Luca Spoletini, spokesman of the Civil Protection agency which is coordinating Italy's response to the emergency.

But one fireman said: "As long as we know there are people under the rubble we'll keep searching even if we're sure they're dead. Families need to know what happened to their loved ones."

Rescue work continued to be hampered by violent aftershocks on Thursday, which further damaged buildings in the medieval towns and terrified the 17,000 people living in tent villages.

Thousands more survivors are being put up in hotels or relatives' homes.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called L'Aquila a "ghost town" and said reconstruction would cost billions. He plans to attend the state funeral, where Catholic mass will be led by the Vatican's second highest priest, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

The funeral required a special dispensation because mass is not usually celebrated on Good Friday in the Catholic church. Pope Benedict has said he will visit Abruzzo soon. There will also be an Islamic rite funeral for six Muslim victims.

REBUILDING STARTS
After the funeral, survivors will start thinking about how to pick up their lives in a region that relies on tourism, farming and family firms. Italy's industry minister said more than half of the companies in Abruzzo "are no longer producing".

One estimate put the damage at up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion), though its impact on Italy's nearly 2-trillion-euro economy, already mired in recession, is expected to be limited.

The government plans to suspend some tax, utility and phone bills in the affected areas and has earmarked 100 million euros for rescue, relief and reconstruction efforts. Italian banks may also suspend mortgage payments and bank charges for survivors.

Local builders, rejecting suggestions that shoddy building was to blame for the collapse of modern buildings that should have been earthquake-proof, including a hospital and student hostel, said some of the damage would prove to be superficial.

"We are not killers," said builder Filiberto Cicchetti. "In two weeks it will be seen that 90 percent of private housing built outside the city walls from the '60s on is still viable."

"The medieval city built 450 years ago has been destroyed but the city will be reborn and rebuilt according to the rules of the trade," he promised.

Locals were mystified as to why some houses were flattened while neighbouring ones of the same period survived, or why the village of Onna was almost entirely destroyed, and its tiny population decimated, but Monticchio next door was untouched.

"It's as if the earthquake tried to avoid us," 45-year-old Amedeo Nardicchio said in Monticchio. "We were lucky."

(Writing by Stephen Brown)
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<cite cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L9965065.htm">Reuters AlertNet - Italy to hold state funeral for earthquake victims</cite>

 

[Giuseppe]

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Italy?s Quake Victims Blame Devastation on Unenforced Standards - Bloomberg.com

Italy?s Quake Victims Blame Devastation on Unenforced Standards

By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Adam Freeman
April 10 (Bloomberg) --

Vincenzina Evangelista had just seconds to grab her 12-year-old daughter and flee her apartment in L?Aquila as the building started to crumble.


Less than a week after Italy?s deadliest earthquake in 30 years killed 279 people and reduced the town to rubble, 28,000 displaced locals such as Evangelista are asking why their homes and a hospital refurbished nine years ago buckled so easily.

?I don?t ever expect to return to my home,? said Evangelista, 51, who runs a newspaper stand. ?After seeing this, I?ll never trust building codes again.?

Two-thirds of Italy?s territory is earthquake-prone, though only 14 percent of property meets seismic safety standards, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Bologna. At 3:32 a.m. on April 6, years of neglect caught up with the country as the quake hit the town in the central Abruzzo region and destroyed 10,000 buildings.

While the heart of L?Aquila was medieval, modern buildings in the town shouldn?t have succumbed to the 6.3-magnitude quake and deaths could have been avoided, said Rui Pinho, head of seismic risk at the European Centre for Earthquake Engineering.

?Nothing on paper has been put into practice,? Pinho said in an interview from Pavia in northern Italy. ?Italy is second to none in terms of research and also legislation. It?s when it comes to applying the rules that it all falls apart.?

Preventing Damage
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said yesterday that authorities must investigate why building and planning laws apparently weren?t followed in L?Aquila.

?This is not about seeing who is right and who is wrong, who is responsible and who isn?t,? Napolitano said at a press conference after visiting the city. ?It?s about finding out how preventive norms that were identified, studied and translated into law were not applied rigorously.?

Pinho?s team was dispatched to L?Aquila to check on the revamped San Salvatore hospital, which was unveiled in 2000, boasting renovations made in reinforced concrete in the 1990s by Milan-based Impregilo SpA, Italy?s largest builder.


When it met its greatest test with the influx of quake victims, its 350 patients had to be evacuated as a wing of the building was destroyed.

Not to Blame
A spokesman for Impregilo, who declined to be named because of company policy, said the builder was responsible for making some improvements in the hospital, not for its construction.

?We looked into the electrical system and the mechanics and the medical equipment,? he said. ?We began work in 1991. The structural work was carried out by other companies between 1972 and the mid-1980s.? They are now out of business, he said.

Roberto Marzetti, the hospital?s director, told SkyTG24 television on April 6 that operating tables were unusable.

?The state of the hospital is similar to that of the city,? he said.

?Hospitals should not be collapsing,? Warner Marzocchi, co-chairman of the World Organization of Volcano Observatories, a group representing institutes studying volcanic activity, said in a telephone interview. ?That is unacceptable and clearly raises very serious questions.?

Marzocchi is chief scientist at Italy?s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and was among the experts who were on-site hours after the earthquake.

Parliamentary Probe
Lawmakers in parliament this week started an investigation into the building of the hospital, said Ignazio Marino, president of the Healthcare and Hygiene Commission.

San Salvatore is just one of 80,000 public buildings in Italy that are unsafe and unfit to cope with a quake, Pinho said. Italy is three decades behind places like California and Japan that are saddled with similar seismic risks, he said.

?Those buildings were the product of the technology of the time,? Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said at a news conference in Rome after returning from L?Aquila, where he toured the ruins. Still, he said, ?prosecutors will investigate and if someone can be held responsible, they will be found.?

In October 2002, a year after Berlusconi won his second general election, an earthquake hit the remote village of San Giuliano di Puglia in southern Italy and killed 27 children trapped in the rubble of their school.

That tragedy led to an investigation into whether the building adhered to basic construction rules that would have stopped it from crumbling.

Counting Costs
Stricter building legislation was pushed through in 2003 and updated last year. The obstacle is that the cost of applying the improved earthquake-proofing to thousands of schools and hospitals would be ?astronomical,? Pinho said. He said he couldn?t be more specific.

Berlusconi this week refused to give an estimate for the cost of reconstructing a city from scratch, saying it would be ?several billion euros.? In the immediate aftermath, the government initially put the price of rebuilding L?Aquila at 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), while risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide Corp. analysts in Boston said the total damage may be 3 billion euros.

?It?s just not been in our culture to construct things the right way in an earthquake zone,? said Enzo Boschi, president of the Rome-based National Geophysical Institute. ?After the crisis subsides, we just leave things be.?

Italy may no longer be able to get away with that attitude. In L?Aquila, residents aren?t ready to trust authorities or construction companies any time soon.

?I built my own house and it?s still up,? Piero Tallo, 65, a retired financial adviser. ?It?s no coincidence that those buildings that we built ourselves have survived while those handed over to companies have collapsed.?

To contact the reporters on this story: Flavia Krause-Jackson in Rome at fjackson@bloomberg.net; Adam L. Freeman in L?Aquila at afreeman5@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: April 9, 2009 18:00 EDT
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<cite cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEm5vYop6srg">Italy?s Quake Victims Blame Devastation on Unenforced Standards - Bloomberg.com</cite>

 

[Giuseppe]

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Reuters AlertNet - Italy holds state funeral as quake toll hits 289

Italy holds state funeral as quake toll hits 289

10 Apr 2009 12:58:00 GMT
Source: Reuters

[Sadly, the cynicism of certain politicians doesn't know limits. This man, Mr Berlusconi, a Billionaire, a man with only power in mind, is doing a great propaganda with his exhibited pain, promises, projects. He's around since early 1990 and the only things he has done for certain are law for protecting his own wellness. Very sad. The desperation of many is crying justice in this country. - msIOH.]

* 205 coffins at state funeral
* Death toll at 289
* Mourners angry that buildings collapsed

(Adds quotes from mourners and survivors)
By Silvia Aloisi and Antonella Cinelli
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 10 (Reuters) -

Italy held a state funeral on Friday for victims of its worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll climbed to 289 and survivors voiced anger that houses simply collapsed.


Thousands of mourners prayed before 205 coffins covered by flowers and photos of the dead, laid out on the parade ground of a police academy in the mountain city of L'Aquila, the worst hit by Monday's 6.3 magnitude quake, before being taken for burial.

Small white caskets with the bodies of children lay on their parents' coffins, some with a favourite toy placed on top. The youngest was a five-month-old boy, killed with his mother.

"These dead will always be with us, each one of them. The children, the students, all of them," said 59-year-old mourner Daniela. "I'm filled with pain but we must remain hopeful. We're a strong people here, I've seen lots of courage and solidarity."

Piero Faro, who came to pay his respects to family friend Paola Pugliesi, 65, who died with her son Giuseppe, 45, said the sadness was mixed with "a lot of anger. Their building simply disintegrated. This should not have happened."

Some mourners kissed and hugged coffins during a Catholic mass led by the second highest priest in the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared emotional as he offered comfort to bereaved relatives.

"I feel spiritually present in your midst and share your anguish," said a message read out from Pope Benedict.

Flags flew at half mast on a national day of mourning, shops lowered shutters, airports stopped take-offs for a minute's silence and traffic wardens removed their bright jackets.

"I feel bitter inside for the people crying for 300 dead so we have closed the shop for them, for what it's worth," said Rome shopkeeper Augusto Costa.

STARTING OVER
Five days after the earthquake, rescuers were still sifting through the rubble. A 53-year-old woman and her teenage daughter were found dead in the wreckage of their home overnight.

But the Civil Protection agency said the search was almost over. Firefighters accompanied some people into their homes to retrieve personal items as police guarded against looters.

Violent aftershocks, some felt in nearby Rome, continued to shake Abruzzo region overnight, terrifying 17,000 people living in tent villages. Thousands more are being put up in hotels.

"Beneath the rubble can be felt the wish to start over, rebuild and dream once more," said Cardinal Bertoni, voicing the hope of "rebirth" which Christians celebrate on Easter Sunday.

But some survivors did not find much comfort in religion.

"Now the professionals of prayer are praying, saying mass. Everybody prays: popes, archpopes, bishops, archbishops, excellencies, eminences, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and yet Jesus Christ sends us an earthquake," said Francesco Pagani, an aged survivor sitting in one of the emergency camps.

Attention is now starting to turn to the reconstruction of a region that relies on tourism, farming and family firms. More than half the companies in Abruzzo have been put out of action.

"I've lost so many friends. My house is ruined, the business I ran after years of sacrifice has collapsed," said mechanic Guido Pietropaoli, now living in a tent with his pregnant partner. "I really hope they help us."

One estimate put the damage at up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion), but its impact on Italy's nearly 2-trillion-euro economy, already mired in recession, is expected to be limited.

The government has announced an enquiry into the tragedy after President Giorgio Napolitano said shoddy construction may be behind the collapse of modern buildings, including a hospital and student hostel, that should have been earthquake-proof.

"People need to search their consciences," he said.

(Writing by Stephen Brown; additional reporting by Antonio Denti and Gabriele Pileri; Editing by Charles Dick)
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<cite cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LA653341.htm">Reuters AlertNet - Italy holds state funeral as quake toll hits 289</cite>

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: 6.3 Earthquake Hits Italy

WHO/Europe - Earthquake in Abruzzo Region of Italy Earthquake in Abruzzo Region of Italy, WHO underlines safe hospitals message on World Health Day

Earthquake in Abruzzo Region of Italy

WHO underlines safe hospitals message on World Health Day

Copenhagen, 8 April 2009

As rescue workers continue to search the rubble, the full scale of the earthquake and its aftershocks that struck the town of L?Aquila and surrounding villages is becoming clearer. Latest figures from the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Policy and the President of the Abbruzzo Region indicate that 251 people have died, 1179 were injured and 25 000 have lost their homes and are temporarily displaced.

?Our thoughts are with those affected by the earthquake in the Abruzzo Region of Italy. This is a tragic reminder of the absolute need to ensure that hospitals can function when the worst happens?, says Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe.

The main hospital in L?Aquila, San Salvatore, a regional referral hospital was completed in 1999.

It has been seriously damaged by the earthquake, with parts of its structure affected. Health workers at the hospital state that the immediate emergency health response was well coordinated, and the hospital damage caused no casualties.

The hospital treated patients in the hours after the earthquake, despite its reduced functionality.

It has now been completely evacuated as a precaution.

On World Health Day, 7 April, WHO focused on the importance of ensuring that hospitals are better designed and constructed and health workers well trained to respond to emergencies such as earthquakes, floods and conflicts. Natural disasters in the WHO European Region are increasing in number and severity. In 1990?2008, over 47 million people in the Region were affected and 130 000 people died.

The earthquake in Italy highlights the need for health facilities to be designed, built and located safely, for health workers to be trained and prepared, and for the health response systems to be coordinated and involved with civil protection and emergency health providers.

Governments around the world, public health authorities and others who operate hospitals and health care facilities can take six steps to:

1. assess the safety of hospitals;
2. protect and train health workers in emergencies;
3. plan for emergency response;
4. design and build resilient hospitals;
5. adopt national policies and programmes for safe hospitals; and
6. protect equipment, medicines and supplies.

Further information is available on the WHO Regional Office web site.

For more information, contact:
Technical information - Dr Gerald Rockenschaub, Regional Adviser, Disaster Preparedness & Response, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, 2100 Copenhagen ?, Denmark, Tel.: +45 39 17 15 51, Mobile: +45 21794207, E-mail: gro@euro.who.int
Media information - Faith Kilford, Conference Communications Officer, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, 2100 Copenhagen ?, Denmark, Tel.: +45 39 17 12 19, Mobile: +45 21194378, E-mail: fki@euro.who.int
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<cite cite="http://www.euro.who.int/mediacentre/PR/2009/20090408_1">WHO/Europe - Earthquake in Abruzzo Region of Italy Earthquake in Abruzzo Region of Italy, WHO underlines safe hospitals message on World Health Day</cite>

 

[Giuseppe]

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Reuters AlertNet - Hopes dim in search for survivors of Italian quake

Hopes dim in search for survivors of Italian quake

11 Apr 2009 16:28:52 GMT
Source: Reuters

* Rescue efforts could end soon
* No new survivors found
* Death toll rises to 293; around 40,000 homeless

By Silvia Aloisi
L'AQUILA, Italy, April 11 (Reuters) -

Italy prepared to end the search for survivors of its worst earthquake for three decades, which killed at least 293 people and made nearly 40,000 homeless.


A fire department spokesman said rescuers might call off the operation on Saturday night or Sunday after a search beneath the ruins of a four-storey building in the mountain city of L'Aquila failed to turn up anyone alive.

"We said from the start hopes were very slight and unfortunately it looks like we won't find anything," he said.

No survivors from Monday's 6.3-magnitude quake have been pulled from the rubble since Tuesday, and rescue efforts had not been expected to continue beyond the weekend.

Violent aftershocks continued to shake Italy's central Abruzzo region overnight and into the morning, terrifying survivors a day after a state funeral for the dead.

The youngest quake victim was a five-month-old boy, killed with his mother.With Easter around the corner, the thousands of people made homeless by the earthquake tried to find some normalcy in tents and borrowed quarters.

TENT CHAPELS
At the main tent city, where some 2,000 survivors are sheltering, makeshift chapels with Bibles and rosaries were set up in plastic tents for people to pray and an Easter mass will be celebrated on Sunday.

"I always used to go to church, and tomorrow I'll do the same," said 75-year-old Carmelina Ciocca, tears in her eyes. "It will help me feel a bit better after all this devastation."

Residents pleaded with security forces at roadblocks to let them recover personal effects from their crumbling houses.

"I just want to get some clothes, I've been wearing this tracksuit for five days now," said Melina Giandomenico, who used to live in a central street in L'Aquila where three more bodies were unearthed on Saturday.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said around 24,000 of the homeless were living in emergency camps and 15,000 had been given shelter in hotels or private homes.

The billionaire media mogul, has offered to put up homeless people at three of his own properties. Attention is starting to turn to the reconstruction of a region that relies on tourism, farming and family firms. More than half the companies in the Abruzzo region are out of action.

One estimate put the damage at up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion), but its impact on Italy's economy, which is worth nearly 2 trillion euros a year and is already mired in recession, is expected to be limited.

(Additional reporting by Antonella Cinelli; writing by Phil Stewart; editing by Andrew Roche)
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<cite cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LB435779.htm">Reuters AlertNet - Hopes dim in search for survivors of Italian quake</cite>

 

[Readymom]

Re: 6.3 Earthquake Hits Italy

Good Morning! I'm currently suffering from jet lag, after accompanying my DD on a school trip to Italy, last week. We were in Florence, when the earthquake occurred.

Having just visited Sienna and San Gimignano the day before the earthqake, I have an even greater appreciation for the losses experienced by the residents of this Italian community.

The loss of the most amazing old buildings that are full of history in densely built, narrow residential streets that are breathtaking at each turn. An unexpected surprise with statuary or view. Arch-ways in what we would consider an alley, but in actuality is a small cobbled street. Flower boxes adorning second and third floor windows. Laundry airing alongside building wall/window ways. Exquisite brickwork and marbled columns or entryways at churches.

The loss of that community is great ... irreplaceable in the human toll and the historic value of the structural damage.

The national coverage of this disaster was extensive, each day we were there. My condolences for the losses of that community. My gratitude for the greater appreciation I have come away with for the wonderful treasures your country has to offer. -k

 

[Shiloh]

Re: 6.3 Earthquake Hits Italy

Another 5.0 within the last hour...shallow too.

Magnitude 5.0 - CENTRAL ITALY
2009 April 13 21:14:26 UTC
Earthquake Details
Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time

* Monday, April 13, 2009 at 21:14:26 UTC
* Monday, April 13, 2009 at 11:14:26 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 42.588?N, 13.397?E
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region CENTRAL ITALY
Distances 65 km (40 miles) WNW of Pescara, Italy
100 km (65 miles) ESE of Perugia, Italy
105 km (65 miles) S of Ancona, Italy
120 km (75 miles) NE of ROME, Italy
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.5 km (3.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 56, Nph= 56, Dmin=26.1 km, Rmss=0.93 sec, Gp= 58?,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2009fjbs

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: 6.3 Earthquake Hits Italy

5.0 nearby/aftershock:
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Earthquake Details

Magnitude 5.0

Date-Time Monday, April 13, 2009 at 21:14:26 UTC
Monday, April 13, 2009 at 11:14:26 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 42.588°N, 13.397°E
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region CENTRAL ITALY
Distances 70 km (45 miles) WNW of Pescara, Italy
100 km (65 miles) SE of Perugia, Italy
110 km (65 miles) NE of ROME, Italy
115 km (70 miles) S of Ancona, Italy

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.5 km (3.4 miles); depth fixed by location program

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009fjbs.php#details

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[AlaskaDenise]

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http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_fjbs_h.html

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