Awareness and understanding of earthquake hazard at school Angela Saraò, Laura Peruzza, Carla Barnaba and Pier Luigi Bragato OGS – Ist. Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste and Udine - Italy. E-mail: [email protected] The earthquake: simple experiments for a complex phenomenon Introduction Schools have a fundamental role to broaden the understanding of earthquake hazards and to build the awareness in the community. Recent earthquakes in Italy, and around the world, have clearly demonstrated that the poor perception of the natural hazards diminishes the effectiveness of the efforts towards the mitigation of seismic risk. Since years the Seismology’s department of OGS is involved in education projects and public activities to raise awareness of education on earthquake. . Students under the guidance of their teachers, can exploit different class activities on the earthquake issues. Some examples are given in the following. How the Earth works? Recording an earthquake Shaking effects on a building Bricks to build simple structures or more complicated shaking table From basic seismograph to digital professional instrumentation Awareness of living in an seismic prone area is the first step towards the risk mitigation. . Earthquake casualties since1900 in Italy Earth Interior, stick-slip and tsunami explained to kids. Are people aware about earthquake ? Physics behind the earthquake Local properties of terrain influence the ground motion. Simple demonstration and measuerements of seismic noise help to explain the phenomenon. For teachers molto elevata 15% media 24% Comuni a pericolosità sismica ALTA alta 55% alta 60% media 11% media 28% molto elevata 11% 17-20 anni 21-50 anni bassa 2% alta 51% media 15% > 51 anni molto elevata 32% molto elevata 32% bassa 1% alta 55% Comuni a pericolosità sismica MOLTO ELEVATA alta 53% alta 52% media 20% molto elevata 18% bassa 10% Results obtained from http://www.terremototest.it were compared with the local hazard SIFO' getto'SI ologiche,$Udine$ ne'pro Riunio ro$Ricerche$Sism S$%$Cent ! OG $ re$2013 23$ottob $ $ 'A' 'R'A'M'M P'R'O'G sismico! l!rischio! cazione!a !nell’edu 00!passi 1,!10,!1 ! !SISIFO:! K!a RIS DU ! 0:25!Da!E !Peruzza! 10:00!%!1 Laura ! costruirla os’è!per! !capire!c ! sismica: mico! ! icurezza! az! ento!sis 5!S 0:5 rim adeguam 10:30!%!1 Stefano!G amento/ ior igl ti!di!m :!interven ! ambiano e!i!muri!c ! nch 1:25!A usi! e!! 11:00!%!1 !ed!ester Alberto!D !italiane perienze !nelle!es ! erremoto ttica!del!t ! 1:55!Dida a!Saraò! gel 11:30!%!1 An nti! artecipa ale! A’!dai!p ! mica!loc RIOSIT posta!sis ANDE,!CU ! ere!la!ris 2:30!DOM ti:!conosc 12.00!%!1 n!studen i!co tor ora ! 2:55!Lab !Barnaba! rla 12:30!%!1 Ca ! c/o Scuola Duca d’Aosta Angela Saraò, ricercatrice OGS Laura Peruzza, ricercatrice OGS Pina Bramato, ing. RSSP OGS 8 ottobre High school studens evaluated perception of the seismic hazard at their hometown bassa 10% Waves theory, propagation and interaction, spring behavior explored by high school students. We support teachers in developing age-appropriate curricula to raise students awareness about earthquakes, seismic safety, and seismic risk reduction. We lead courses, talks and workshop to educate and share experiences about teaching the earthquake and the seismic safety. Corso insegnanti Edurisk Trieste 2012 molto elevata 8% media 26% What are site effects? Seismic Hazard Map of Italy 14-16 anni bassa 11% 16.30-18.30 ! NZO$ ! 4:00$PRA 13:00$%$1 è!misuro! ro,!perch ! osa!misu misuro,!c ! tro!QCN:! celerome to! ! ’ac 5!L aga 4:1 a!! !Br 14:00!%!1 !didattic Pierluigi l’attività asso!per! :!primo!p ! el!rischio ezione!d ! 4:30!Perc !Peruzza! e! ich 14:15!%!1 cif Laura genze!spe ire!le!esi e!per!cap ! !general USSIONE nti! ! pa 0!!DISC eci 6:0 art !%1 i!p 14:30 Tutti! ! ! ! quando fa!cosa,!e! ! 6:30!Chi! i!partecipanti 16:00!%!1 Tutti! ! !! 15 ottobre 16.30-17.30 22 ottobre 16.30-18.30 1 Main topic of the course for teachers •  The earthquake •  Seismic hazard and risk of your living area. •  Earthquake preparedness •  Seismic safety •  School teaching experiences on earthquake Acknowledgments Prepare students to react safely The activity presented in this poster have been developed within the projects EDURISK and SISIFO http://www.edurisk.it https://sites.google.com/site/ogssisifo/ PORTA EST n.1 PORTA NORD n.2 PORTA OVEST 3 PORTA OVEST n.4 Preparing for earthquakes involves learning what should be done before, during, and after earthquakes. Special thanks to the schools: Scuola d’Infanzia Stella Marina, Trieste Scuola Primaria Duca D’Aosta, Trieste Liceo Magrini, Gemona (Udine) ISS Galilei, Mirandola (Modena) Liceo Flaminio, Vittorio Veneto (Treviso) ISIS Mattei, Latisana (Udine) ISIS Pujati , Sacile (Pordenone)