Case Study: Earthquake - Italy, L’Aquila

• When


  6th April 2009, 3:32pm
• 6 scientists and 1 ex governmental official were convicted of manslaughter for downplaying the likelihood of an earthquake 6 days before it takes place


  October 22nd, 2012
• They were accused of giving residents a false sense of security, they received a 6 year sentence and had to pay several million euros in damages
• The verdict was overturned for the 6 scientists


  November 2014
• ·         309 people killed.

  ·         Collapse of medieval buildings and cathedral.

  ·         The hospital where many of the injured were taken was damaged in a 4.8 magnitude aftershock.

  ·         Economic cost $15bn.

  Number of students at L’Aquila University has since declined