November 23, 1980 Today is November 23, 2010, 30 years ago, at 19:35 Italy was split into two.
An earthquake capable of X on the Mercalli scale (scale that bases its values \u200b\u200bon the observation of damage) is equal to a value of 6.9 on the Richter scale (which is calculated based on an estimate from Energy sprigiontata earthquake), broke the 'Italy in two, causing hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and about 2000 deaths in the region between the Basilicata, Campania (particularly in Irpinia) and Puglia.
It has been 30 times that day and a flood of money (you Sitima have been spent on post-earthquake about 70,000,000,000,000 pounds of old, or in exponential notation 70E +12 pounds) for works that in principle were functional in some places but authentic cathedrals in the desert or even ghosts.
30 years since then, an example of an unfinished work, whose news was reported by the morning of November 24, 1980 on the front page, was the collapse of the floor Sferisterio (which, if I remember correctly, was inaugurated recently) and that after 30 years is still there, gutted and crumbling to remember and a reminder of what happened that day and in subsequent years.
30 years ago, as everyone knows the Web (or Internet as many mistakenly think) did not exist and the news traveled through over the air broadcasts of RAI and through newspapers.
the daily Il Mattino, whatever, you have the merit not only I made the record of the event as every newspaper should do, but, also, to have made the history of that time in the field.
RAI 3 here in Naples, a few days ago he proposed a documentary called "Generation earthquake" which, fortunately or unfortunately, I belong, who brought a little 'stock footage and a mini investigation with the protagonists of the time after 30 years on what has been done and what needed to be done and not done.
By a twist of fate (for those poor people I dare say a bad twist of fate) of 6 April 2009 at 3.35 suddenly relived the stories that my parents gave me that day I lived and the bad feeling that oscillatory motion of the bed as if someone squotendo same. Vissi noise (I have a very light sleep) squotimento of the earth that is amplified in the buildings, probably lived for the first time a feeling forgotten, almost subconscious, of what happened almost 30 years ago.
After the big news and the story of what happened in L'Aquila, I looked for news and, above all, those first few pages of THE MORNING of those days, which are also Art Deco in the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bNaples (interchange between line 2 and Line 1 to Piazza Cavour), perhaps seized by an irresistible desire to recover a piece of life that for ages, luckily I had lost.
As I said, I published on this Blog, more technological, historical, those first pages I found the time, and now that I have allowed to be among the first hit of San Google.
But I could not, in thirty years, not to return to those days.
as they did in the post
Irpinia earthquake on November 23, 1980 cited reproduce a much larger gallery of documents that I found around the web, starting from the only known document multimedia era, the sound of the earthquake.
A radio station was recording a lively folk music played with an accordion. At 19:34
that tape record the sound of the monster that destroyed thousands of lives, and scored hundred mathematical thousands ...
The following image is what I found the seismograph
The epicenter was an area between Teora , Conza of Campania, and Casalnuovo Conza . It looks like this after the 1980 earthquake
Conza of Campania November 24, 1980
Teora November 24, 1980
On
Casalnuovo Conza , I found no direct images, but with a link to a person who is an expert in black and white shows what remains.