In 2009 almost 300 people died in a quake in L'Aquila in the central Abruzzo region.
An Italian court has convicted four people over the collapse of a university hall of residence during a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.
As part of a global network developing new disaster recovery protocols for rich countries, he has been studying the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that claimed 309 lives in L'Aquila in central Italy in 2009.
Sadly, the issue is not "if" but "when" the next tremor will occur in L'Aquila.
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Italy is still trying to recover from the aftermath of the deadly earthquake in L'Aquila.
They were found guilty of failing to properly communicate the risk of a major earthquake in L'Aquila.
He has won plaudits for his energetic response to the earthquake in L'Aquila.
For the relatives of the victims in L'Aquila, the trial provided some solace.
Prosecutors in L'Aquila announced that they would investigate to see if there were grounds for bringing charges against those responsible.
The scholarly bodies said it had been beyond anyone to predict exactly what would happen in L'Aquila on 6 April 2009.
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"The summit in L'Aquila will make clear that the G8 format is no longer adequate, " according to German chancellor Angela Merkel.
But the talks in L'Aquila at least suggest some prospect for progress during the complicated bargaining and trade-offs ahead of the Copenhagen meeting, which is likely to be at least as contentious, and complex, as the Kyoto gathering in 1997.
Gian Michele Calvi, an expert in earthquake engineering who is one of the indicted seven, says the commission recognised that L'Aquila is in a highly seismic zone, and that a powerful earthquake could therefore happen at any time.
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The government initially won praise for its support for L'Aquila in the aftermath of the 6 April, 2009 earthquake.
Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday pledged to build a new town to house the thousands of people left homeless in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome but for many the problems lie in the more immediate future.
The earthquake killed more than 300 and made tens of thousands homeless in the area around the city of L'Aquila.
We've worked together on economic matters at our G20 summits in London and Pittsburgh, as well as L'Aquila.
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Indeed, Warner Marzocchi and Anna Maria Lombardi of the INGV showed that a few hours before the earthquake actually struck modelling would have suggested the chance that a powerful quake would occur within 10 kilometres of L'Aquila within three days rose from one in 200, 000 (the background level) to about one in 1, 000.
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The funeral was being held outside a hangar in Coppito, a town adjacent to the earthquake's epicenter of L'Aquila.
The commission had been tasked in the spring of 2009, when several tremors had started hitting the area around L'Aquila, with evaluating the risks of a big earthquake there.
In the early hours of April 6, a quake of 6.3 magnitude hit L'Aquila and its surroundings.
By April 7th, when most of its population had fled, L'Aquila was like a city that had been extensively shelled: a ghost town in which almost the only sounds were of house alarms, ambulance sirens and the earth-movers of rescue workers.
In particular he said he would like to build the first of a batch of new towns alongside L'Aquila for those whose homes were beyond repair.
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