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Housing Situation Update, 31 August 2016

“As of August 30th, 2,925 people have been displaced: 970 in the region of Lazio, 1,200 in the region of Marche and 755 in the region of Umbria. There is no official number of missing people as rescue activities are still on-going. On 30 August 2016, the Civil Protection reported 3,554 people have been assisted […]

Hospital and School Damage

Media coverage has reported damage to the hospital in Amatrice due to the earthquake. The NY Timesreported that that the hospital had to be evacuated; however, patients were not injured. The elementary school in Amatrice was also damaged during the earthquake. This school had a seismic retrofit in 2012. The damage to the school and other structures is the […]

Preliminary reconnaissance in the immediate aftermath of the event – August 24, 2016

Photos and corresponding observations date back to the day of the main shock (August, 24 – Arquata del Tronto and Pescara del Tronto municipalities) and the day after (August, 25 – other municipalities), when the area stricken (apart from Amatrice municipality) were still accessible. Due to that, in the vast majority of the cases, the […]

Reconnaissance in the area stricken by the event – August 28, 2016

This post presents some photos and observations from Andrea Barocci, P.E. when he visited damaged buildings and churches in the area stricken by the seismic sequence. The different types of damage mechanisms encountered during his reconnaissance, which was undertaken a few days after the main shock (August, 28th), are reported in the following. Field observation […]

The 2016, August 24, Central Italy Earthquake

Results related to the Central Italy earthquake, as seen from ISNet (Irpinia Seismic Network). They concern the magnitude, source parameters, focal mechanism and ground shaking estimations. They are automatically obtained and then revised by RISSC-Lab team. Read the Summary: The 2016, August 24, Central Italy Earthquake

Italian Catalogue of Seismic Ground Failures (CEDIT)

Salvatore Martino, Associate Professor in Engineering Geology at the University of Roma “Sapienza,” and his team with the Research Centre for the Geological Risk (CERI) are currently searching for the landslides and other seismic-induced ground affects caused by the 2016 Amatrice earthquake. They have already identified more than 150 ground affects, mainly comprised of rock […]

Satellite image damage analysis

NASA-produced maps help gauge Italy earthquake damage Satellite images reveal full extent of destruction following Italy’s earthquake