By Dr. Ioanna Ioannou, Randolph Borg, Viviana Novelli, Jose’ Melo, Professor David Alexander, Indranil Kongar, Enrica Verrucci, Bryan Cahill, and Dr. Tiziana Rossetto.
June 2012, UCL EPICentre Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
A team consisting of Dr Ioanna Ioannou, Randolph Borg and Jose Melo from EPICentre, and Viviana Novelli from University of Bath, travelled to the affected areas on 2nd June 2012. The team spent four days in the field, re-visiting Finale Emilia, San Felice sul Panaro, San Agostino and Mirabello as well as visiting new areas such as Mirandola, Cento, Cavezzo and San Possidonio. Rapid surveys were conducted that focused on the overall performance of residential, commercial, industrial and historical structures, emergency management and on geotechnical features of the two recent events. The present report complements the first reconnaissance report (Rossetto et al, 2012) and should be read in addition to it in order to obtain a complete picture of the impact of the two moderate events. Both reports can be downloaded from the EPICentre website (www.epicentreonline.com) , where kml files with the georeferenced photos collected in the field for the two events can also be downloaded (for viewing on Google Earth).
EPICentre has announced the publication of an EPICentre Report presenting an overview of the second earthquake event to hit the Emilia Romagna Region on the 29th May 2012. This report should be read in conjunction with the report EPI-FO-200512 covering the effects of the 20th May 2012 earthquake. Please note that the latter has been slightly revised since being first published. The geo-referenced images (kmz – viewing in Google Earth) from the field mission are available. Please email EPICentre enquiries to obtain the high resolution images.
Read the Report: The 29th May 2012 Emilia Romagna Earthquake EPICentre Field Observation Report No. EPI-FO-290512 (11.2 MB PDF)
