When catastrophes happen like the one that hit Japan today, one can not help marveling before the tragedy of lives cut short at any moment, although more or fewer may be, but at the same time we can not dispense with considering that those deaths are not caused arbitrariness of natural events. Or at least not directly.
In the vast majority of cases, deaths occurred during an earthquake are due to collapse and the failure of artificial constructions, so only indirectly is responsible for the hand of Mother Nature as the first guilty about his fate, as in good faith, is the man with his inauguration.
What's more, the factor of unpredictability of earthquakes that is really only half if one part is not true that technological progress allows us today to know in time when will these phenomena, on the other side is equally acclaimed scientific studies that allow us to know the area by area and in detail, albeit within certain limits, what are the areas most at risk from earthquakes.
And if that was not enough seismographic research, would still be a useful historical experience. In Japan they are aware of the danger of ground water in which they live and on which their views città ma non si sottomettono allo spauracchio della natura matrigna e non si rassegnano all'imperscrutabilità degli eventi ambientali.
Il paragone con il Giappone sull'adeguatezza delle misure antisismiche nel territorio italiano fu sulla bocca di tutti l'indomani del 6 Aprile di due anni fa, giorno della tragedia dell'Aquila. Quella che ci ha svegliato stamane potrebbe essere la tristissima conferma dell'arretratezza del nostro Paese rispetto ad un altro che, esattamente come noi, è a forte rischio sismico ed è inserito tra gli otto Stati più sviluppati del pianeta.
La differenza di tre gradi fatta segnare sulla scala Richter dal terremoto che colpì la provincia aquilana (5,9) ed il cataclisma di oggi a Sendai (8,9), Combined with the number of registered victims (308 in Abruzzo, fortunately still under a hundred between the Pacific coast of Japan), make it even more the idea of \u200b\u200bhow much progress. The sadness of the disaster
Today's resurgence of the bad memories of two years ago, the disdain for the laughs of those who would take advantage of that state of national emergency and above all the shock from peanuts to the pragmatism with which our ruling class deals the adaptation seismic: action after a tragedy in a limited area of \u200b\u200bthe country costs less of a redevelopment project throughout the first the disaster happens. Simply monstrous.
Finally we would have to talk about the risks for nuclear power stations in cases of such events, the Italian government seems to take quite lightly: but that's another story.
