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A woman finds her house in Illica, central Italy, destroyed after the 2016 earthquake. Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

September 30, 2025

Four ways virtual reality can help communities heal after disasters

Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, University of Essex

New research shows VR can produce immersive digital environments that provide a space where people can mourn, reflect, reconnect and share.

Amatrice’s clock tower has survived quakes across the centuries. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

August 31, 2016

Still standing: how an ancient clock tower survived Italy’s deadly earthquake

Brendan Duffy, The University of Melbourne; Colin Caprani, Monash University, and Mark Quigley, The University of Melbourne

Amatrice’s still-standing ancient clocktower has become an iconic image from last week’s deadly earthquake. But it is not the only unusual survivor.

The magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Italy has already cost more than 200 lives. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

August 26, 2016

Earthquakes don’t kill, our collapsing structures do. So how can we build them to stay up?

Colin Caprani, Monash University

Yesterday’s earthquake in central Italy has resulted in many deaths. But it is not the earthquake that claims victims but our built infrastructure. Why is this so?

Amatrice in central Italy was among the areas hit by a 6.2 earthquake that killed at least 252 people. Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

August 25, 2016

Can we get better at predicting earthquakes?

Michel Campillo, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and Rob van der Hilst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

There are already early warning systems for earthquakes, but advances in seismology provide hope that experts will be able to predict when new ones will occur.

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