Stay safe. Our thoughts are with you and your countrymen and women. All the best, frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> Sent: May 30, 2012 5/30/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Earthquake (more) This message did not get through, hence I'm trying again: Hi Dave (and all those who read/wrote about this ongoing disaster), Yes, when you hope you can start over, you get hit again, so you're always in a suspended/depressing state. There are lots of structural engineers at work (and the authorities are hiring all those available), but you cannot check all buildings in a few days, so someone gets back at home/work in buildings showing little/no damage, and then the quake hits again and someone else is killed again. And then you have to start evaluating everything as you did nothing before. There are no big cities in the most-damaged area (although Modena, Bologna and Ferrara are all within 30-40 kms from there), but there are countless small towns/villages one after another, rich in historical (and usually not so safe) buildings/churches. However, the worst and most surprising thing is the number of industrial sheds which collapsed (usually partially, but enough for killing workers and stopping manufacturing) in one of the richest and more active areas in Italy. They are mostly small companies, to which a destroyed building usually means nothing left and out of business. Sure some seismic rules have been eluded there... Dario -----Messaggio originale----- From: David Mann Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:12 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Earthquake (more) On May 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: > Update: ground keeps shaking and shaking over here. Today around 9 a.m. we > experienced another major quake (shake and thunder, Richter 5.8), around > the same power of the main one we suffered 9 days ago (Richter 5.9 then), > plus several lesser shakes in the 3-to-4 range. > More historical buildings and churches are down now, and more people at > work were killed under industrial sheds which collapsed. I was dismayed to hear about that on the radio this morning. Just when you think it's all settling down you get hit again, and I know well how frustrating that is. Hopefully things will sort themselves out soon. Do they have structural engineers evaluating buildings before allowing people back in? It's been very quiet down here for a few months but we did have a 5.2 last Friday. I didn't notice it as I was out running at the time. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. ----- Nessun virus nel messaggio. Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com Versione: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2425/5030 - Data di rilascio: 29/05/2012 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
