A sightseeing boat hurled onto a two-story building at Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, by the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. This means that the tsunami barrier, visible at left, was overtopped by at least 10 m (33 ft).

Opinion: Fate and denial: The Fukushima reactor 3, and the L’Aquila earthquake 7

The recent acquittal of the TEPCO executives in the Fukushima power plant tragedy hearkens back to the trial of the Italian seismologists who were charged with negligence after the L’Aquila, Italy, earthquakes. Both events raise the question: How much do you prepare for the most dreadful disasters, which result from truly large or rare paroxysms of the Earth?

Il terremoto alle porte di Roma

Il 23 giugno, un terremoto di magnitudo 3.6 ha avuto come epicentro la città di Colonna, a sud-est di Roma, tra il complesso vulcanico dei Colli Albani e la città di Tivoli, famosa per l’estrazione del travertino. Non si è quindi trattato di uno scuotimento dovuto a un forte terremoto nell’Appenino centrale, come inizialmente temuto.

2016年M7熊本地震にまつわる二件の研究不正について

一つ目の不正論文では、筆者の仮説を支持する為に、断層滑り分布とそれに伴う地震の場所が阿蘇火山の方向へずらされていた。二つ目の不正論文では、震源近くの臨時観測点で観測されたとされる地震波形が、実際には筆者により捏造されたものだった。両方の論文において、調査委員と大学は論文の取り下げを勧告した。