An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor, or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude (or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude) of an earthquake is conventionally reported, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale.
At the Earth’s surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacing the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity.
In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. An earthquake’s point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter refers to the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter.
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In this page I want to talk about Earthquake.
Of how people live with it and how people die because of it.
Of how this phenomenon, so dramatic and unpredictable, created by nature, is always followed by another phenomenon, also dramatic but created by men.
Speculations
You might object that there is plenty of talking about earthquake already!
So?
Now there is one more. I will start from there, where the earthquake is still alive, and I will try to bring it with me along the way and shake who doesn’t want to understand, or is maybe too busy with something else, that a earthquake doesn’t end when the earth become still.
That’s only the begin of it!
I will start physically from Abruzzo, thinking about Haiti, carrying a earthquake inside to bring it everywhere with me.
I WILL SHAKE YOU!!!
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Reminder
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L’Aquila 25-01-2010
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This video was shot in the city centre of L’Aquila, the 25th of January 2010 as a document for the event “Lo Scatto de L’Aquila”, a no-profit meeting organized by Marianna Santoni, Roberto Grillo and Associazione Logica with the participation of 170 photographers coming from all over Italy to support the colleagues of L’Aquila.
Donations, of the amount of € 6.000, have been assigned for the creation of “Lo Spazio del Ricordo” (The memory’s place), a photographic archive to keep alive, among people of L’Aquila, their cultural identity through pictures, documents and other material of the event that changed forever the city and of the support of those who helped during the emergency.
A second edition of the event, will be hold, with the same aim in L’Aquila the 11th of April 2010.
For more information about it click the following link:
http://www.mariannasantoni.biz/news_events_fotografia.html#2010_LAquila
