Irpinia. The Carabinieri of the Bagnoli Irpino Forestry Station, following a report from a hiker, rescued a wolf cub of about 5-6 months in a wooded area in the municipality of Montella. The cub was disoriented, dehydrated and suffering from infectious diseases that caused him to lose his fur in various places. He is now hospitalized at the specialized CRAS center in Naples.
It is a male of about 5-6 months and from the first checks, pending confirmation of the outcome of the test of the relative DNA, it seems to be a purebred wolf. The area of the discovery is a habitat particularly suited to the presence of wolves: it falls within the Regional Park of the Picentini Mountains, and similar findings have occurred in the past.
The cub probably lost contact with his mother and, being still at a tender age, was not able to provide for his own sustenance. Research is underway to find the pack he probably belongs to.
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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