[Geoinfo] Letter of support for Italian earthquake scientists indicted for failing to predict the L'Aquila Earthquake]

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Dear colleagues and friends,

Two weeks ago the L'Aquila Prosecutor's office indicted of
manslaughter  the members of the National High Risk Committee that met
in L'Aquila one week  before the Mw6.3 earthquake.
The charges are for failing to provide a short term alarm  to the
population before the earthquake struck, killing more than 300  people.
The president of INGV, Enzo Boschi (member of the High Risk
Committee), and the director of the National Earthquake Center,
Giulio  Selvaggi (just accompanying Boschi to the meeting as
technical  specialist), are among the scientists in seismology and
earthquake  engineering now under investigation together with some
civil protection officials.

We think that the allegations against the scientists are completely
unfounded and we look for support on this from the international
scientific community working on earthquakes and in the Earth sciences
in  general.

We invite you to sign the letter addressed to the President of the
Italian Republic, published at the the web page
www.mi.ingv.it/open_letter/
We also would be glad if you could extend this invitation to
other  seismologists that can possibly share our initiative.

We hope that by this action we can increase the awareness of people on
earthquake risk reduction through education, preparedness, and a long
term program of building  reinforcement.

Thank you in advance for your support

Daniela Pantosti
Alberto Michelini
Alessandro Amato
Massimo Cocco
Ingrid Hunstad
Warner Marzocchi
Claudio Chiarabba
Massimiliano Stucchi
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Daniela Pantosti
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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