Concrete Transport Helicopter Crashes in Irpinia: Pilot Injured
Perhaps the weight of the basket was too much or a gust of wind. A helicopter carrying concrete lost altitude and crashed on private land in the Setoleto area of Bisaccia, in the Avellino area. The pilot, a 37-year-old originally from Uruguay living in the province of L'Aquila, was rescued by firefighters. He is now in the Frangipane hospital in Ariano Irpino where he was taken by a 118 ambulance. His conditions are not serious but he suffered bruises.
The helicopter it was supposed to transport material for the construction of a pylon for wind turbines. The firefighters from the Bisaccia and Grottaminarda detachments secured the accident area and the helicopter, which was seriously damaged and leaking fuel. The Carabinieri from the Avellino provincial command were also on site to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident.
Montefredane – A new, sharp earthquake has disrupted the sleep of thousands of residents between Irpinia and Sannio. The seismic event, registered at magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale, struck at exactly midnight (00:00), with its epicenter located in the municipality of Montefredane, in the province of Avellino. According to data released…
Irpinia is transforming into an open-air laboratory for earthquake research. What until recently was a pioneering experiment has now become an operational geophysical monitoring network 80 kilometers long. optical fiber Installed between Sant'Angelo le Fratte and Castelgrande, already used on an experimental basis on a 20 km stretch, it is now at the heart of the Irpinia Near Fault Observatory (Info), a project born from the collaboration between the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and the University of Naples Federico II, within the framework of the European research infrastructure EPOS and financed with Pnrr-Ingv funds.
The system has already demonstrated its effectiveness by recording, with unprecedented resolution, the earthquake magnitude 4.0 earthquake that struck the Montefredane area on October 25th. "With 80 kilometers of fiber optic cable, we can observe underground movements with a precision that traditional sensors cannot offer," explains Gaetano Festa, professor of Physics at Federico II University. "It's like having a seismometer every ten meters along the entire length of the cable."
Irpinia shook again: another magnitude 2.1 earthquake was recorded at 2:45 a.m. in Montefredane, following three tremors the previous evening that caused panic among the population. The strongest, a magnitude 4.0, along with the others, were recorded on Saturday evening,…
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