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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Any news on the earthquake? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Magnitude 6.2 at Norcia, other shocks in central Italy. 22 dead so far, but this is a partial number. Many villages destroyed, with rescue teams searching survivors. All TV stations broadcast live the rescue efforts. Tullio Accumuli, Amatrice and Arquata del Tronto partially destroyed.Amatrice gives its name to a spaghetti plate. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
I miei pensieri e preghiere vanno a tutti coloro che sono colpiti. Ho amici e colleghi nella zona che non sono stato in grado di contattare ancora ... (via google translate) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
At least 38 dead. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Restaurants across Italy are being called upon to donate €1 from sales of the famed amatriciana pasta dish, which was invented in Amatrice, to the Red Cross in order to help earthquake victims. I got mixed feelings about it... Anyway https://twitter.com/TrastevereRM/status/768397218768424960/photo/1 |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
It will take much more money to rebuild what was destroyed. Unfortunately, no money is spent in building anti earthquakes homes, school and hospitals. A 6 magnitude quake would do little damage in Japan or California, and kill very few people.Dead are more than 60 and the count is rising. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Money and time... In L'Aquila, not far from tonight's event, an earthquake of the same strength as that of Amatrice, caused a disaster Easter 2009. 309 people died and 1,600 were injured. Reconstruction work in the city are still ongoing. The earthquake and its consequences led to a trial of seismologists, politicians and rescue workers. Speaking about safe homes. A swedish family lives in Perugia that's rather far from the epicenter. Their home is secured from earthquakes, but still it was shaking badly for more than 2 minutes. Their cat woke the family one hour before the event when she was acting very odd and whining. Perhaps the cat knew what about to come. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Many animals seem to foresee a quake with unusual behavior. Unfortunately, they are unable to communicate with us. They might be able to hear very low frequency waves, which we don't perceive, caused by fracturing of rocks. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
We don't need broadband, which is useful only for soccer games and porn. We need secure homes, schools and hospitals. Will the Gov understand this? Tullio |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Looking at the news photos many buildings in the region affected were very old,and just crumbled away to piles of rocks and timber. When replacing such buildings they certainly need to be replaced with more quake resistant structures. However, I can't help but ponder how the local population will take to this... As for the "civil" structures like schools and hospitals I feel they should have been built to higher standards, but appear not to have been. No whether this is due to "planning constraints", or deliberate acts of omission I have no idea. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
A school was restructured in 2012 and should have been up to modern standards, yet it crashed. Prof Boschi of the Italian Geophysical Institute says that at Norcia, which was rebuilt after a quake in 1979, no building crashed. Much depends on the quality of work done. Many rebuilding operations are assigned to the lowest bidder, and you can see the results. Many older building and churches survived the shocks, they have done this for centuries, The first quake in Amatrice was in 1609, two others followed. Tullio |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
We've had some serious issues with build quality in Scotland. A large number of schools, mostly built by one contractor, have recently been inspected and found to have wall ties missing and other similar defects; this follows a large section of wall falling down. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
We need secure homes, schools and hospitals. Will the Gov understand this? Perhaps they do but... The money was there but were not spent. http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/terremoto-scandalo-fondi-i-soldi-cerano-non-furono-spesi-1299335.html |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Also the money for redoubling the rails in the latest train tragedy was there but was not spent. This depends on Italy's greatest handicap, its bureaucracy, which is still in Borbonic mood. Tullio |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
God bless Italy! |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
God bless Italy! |
Rankine Send message Joined: 13 Sep 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 458,906 RAC: 0 |
Ciao a tutti! Me ne vergogno ma.... mi sono reso conto solo ora che sono iscritto dal 2008 e non avevo mai postato prima di oggi! Sono Fabio aka Rankine, sono un ingegnere meccanico con la testa per aria e con la passione per i Pc. Visto che il Pc che uso ha enormi potenzialità (e che non riesco a sfruttare a pieno), ho deciso di friggerlo un pò e metterlo al lavoro :) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Sono anni che cerco di mantenere vivo questo caffe' ma nessun italiano finora mi ha aiutato. Sono un fisico in pensione e non dispondo di PC ultimo modello. Il mio piu' vecchio usa Linux su un Opteron 1210 del 2008, a cui ho aggiunto una scheda grafica HD 7770. Poi ho un portatile HP a 32 bit, sempre con Linux, senza scheda grafica e un PC Windows del 2014 con una scheda Geforce GTX 750 OC, che gira Einstein@home GPU tasks come una scheggia.Benvenuto Fabio! Tullio |
Rankine Send message Joined: 13 Sep 08 Posts: 8 Credit: 458,906 RAC: 0 |
Grazie Tullio! Io ho un Pc su cui gira windows 7 (chiedo venia), ma posso contare su uno Xeon E5-2697 V3 (14 cores, 28 threads) + GPU nVidia Quadro K5200 e 32 GB DDR4. Se non altro lo sto utilizzando per una nobile causa.... Come mai hai così tante difficoltà ? poca partecipazione, pochi utenti effettivamente attivi? pochi argomenti? Scusa le domande banali, ma sono un "vecchio" nuovo. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Ci sono molti utenti italiani, ma preferiscono rimanere nell'ambito dei rispettivi team. Io mi sono iscritto a BOINC.Italy, ma i suoi message boards sono dull, al contrario di SETI@home. Poi io sono bilingue, avendo studiato in America, e spesso scrivo in inglese, la mia seconda lingua. |
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