Italy: L'Aquila Earthquake 2009

This article uses sentiment analysis (SA) to assess post-disaster recovery on the 10th anniversary of L’Aquila’s earthquake using Twitter data.

This paper focuses on earthquakes in Italy and their economic cost. High reconstruction cost following the earthquake in L’Aquila in 2009 are examined, where the government embarked on a long and expensive reconstruction drive.

An overview of public

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what can be learned about disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the L’Aquila trial of scientists. The court case was initiated because of a controversial meeting on 31 March 2009 of the Major Risks Committee (MRC)

Using the disaster risk reduction paradigm and United Nations principles for post-disaster interventions, this report analyses the actions of the Italian civil protection agency following the April 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy), especially

The L'Aquila earthquake was the first Italian seismic disaster in almost a century to have an epicentre close to a major concentration of population (in fact, it was 3.4 km from the city's geographical centre).

This paper is about the measuring the progress of a recovery process after an earthquake, in L'Aquila, Italy.

Communicating earthquake risk has long been a major challenge for scientists. Yet the right messages at the right time can and will save lives, say U.S. Communication scholars. The authors stress that more should be done to ensure that members of the public receive clear, timely information on risk, and on what actions they should take to protect themselves.

This policy brief examines two earthquakes in Italy – the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake and the 1985 earthquake in Pozzuoli – that led to relocation in the aftermath, but which were implemented ad hoc and lacking normative and policy framework. The brief aims

'Bills aimed at introducing tax reliefs on compulsory earthquake insurance for both citizens and insurance companies have been proposed in the past, but were never approved,' said Riccardo Campagna, an expert in risk management...

This decision support tool aims to guide both decision and operating processes for realizing provisional works by fire department in order to improve post-earthquake safety. The acronym STOP stands for technical fact-sheets for provisional works (in