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The quake struking center Italy, april 2009

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Monday april 6th, 2009: in the hearth of the night (3:30 local time), my wike wakes me up: she is in panic 'cause everything in our home, in Rome, moves and waves. the glasses in the cupboard are tinkling, the bed is swinning a little: is an earthquake! Still some seconds and then all is gone: "ok, nothing has broken, no1 gets hurted". After a little check of the home, we come back to bed: Monday is a working day and we have to sleep!

 

The alarm drills, it's time to wake up. We turn on the tv, and here's the bad new: a 6,3 richter degrees quake (here in Rome the wave were "only" a 4 degrees) took place near L'Aquila ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aquila ), the first count says 30 deaths, a lot of building damaged, entires cities were destroyed. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake )

 

the last, actual death count is 279, around 1000 people get hurted, and 30.000 people is now without a home (even if a lot of homes are still there, a lot of buidings now are precarious and cannot be used before big works). U.S. government says that he will help the reconstruction of the most important artworks that got damaged (in particular, one of the most precious is the church of St. Maria di Collemaggio ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SMariaCollemaggio.jpg ), founded by Celestino V in the XIII sec. - we don't know if the precious facade is still there or not...).

 

One of the most sad think is that here in Italy no1 has ever thinked to do a reinforcement plan for the ancient buildings that makes our Italy knew in the whole world (and we had a lot of studies and a lot of plans of how this think can be done)...the politicans here are most commited to chit-chat between them than to make something in concrete terms. And the people die. And the artworks heritage get destroyed.

 

And, we ask now, why has got damaged also the buildings realized most recently, even with rules (and laws) on how to build sysmical-secured buidings?

 

this early morning (thursday 9th) we had the last wawe of earthquake: 5,1 richter degrees, and other buildings get damaged.

 

AFAIK, there were no EL's player from the region who suffer the most damages: let's think it's true.

 

your Marcvs from >FA<

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And, we ask now, why has got damaged also the buildings realized most recently, even with rules (and laws) on how to build sysmical-secured buidings?

 

mafia, bribes to use less materials for structures to make the buildings cheaper.

 

anyway, sucks it happened :icon13:

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mafia, bribes to use less materials for structures to make the buildings cheaper.

 

yeah, this is what really happen :icon13:

 

anyway, the italian bench just started a lot of investigations to seek for responsabilities on those events: I hope that something will change in the future!

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