Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie
 

LABORATORIO DI PERICOLOSITA’ VULCANICA E SISMICA
LABORATORY OF VOLCANIC AND SEISMIC HAZARD

 

Coordinator:

Prof. Alessandro Tibaldi, PhD                    alessandro.tibaldi@unimib.it

Tel. 0039-02 64484332, Cell. 3292176357, Fax: 0039-02 64484273

P. della Scienza 4, Department of Geological Science and Geotechnologies, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

·        Professor of Structural geology, Geological mapping, Geodynamics and neotectonics.

·        Member of the National Board of the Council of Judge Chamber for Italian Ministry of Public Works, dPR 544, 21.12.99

·        Member of the International Board of experts of the Italian-LatinAmerican Institute in the technical-scientific area

·        Fellow of the Institute for Dynamics of Environment Processes, National Council of Researches

 

Main investigators:

Alessandro Tibaldi, Professor                     alessandro.tibaldi@unimib.it

Luigina Vezzoli, Professor                           vezzoli@uninsubria.it

Annalisa Tunesi, Researcher                      annalisa.tunesi@unimib.it

Andrea Bistacchi, Researcher                     andrea.bistacchi@unimib.it

Tiziana Apuani, Researcher                        tiziana.apuani@unimi.it

Claudia Corazzato, Associate researcher    claudia.corazzato@unimib.it

 

PhD students:

Andrea Rovida                                               andrea.rovida@unimib.it

Emilia Fiorini                                                emilia.fiorini@unimib.it

Valentina Montalto                                       montalto@mi.ingv.it

Antonio Gomez                                              gomez@mi.ingv.it

Marzorati Simone                                           marzorati@mi.ingv.it

Andrea Uttini                                                uttini@uninsubria.it

 

 
Central crater of Mt. Etna, Italy
 

La pericolositā č la probabilitā che si verifichi in una data area un evento geologico calamitoso di una certa intensitā entro un determinato intervallo di tempo. In questo laboratorio si studiano le eruzioni vulcaniche e i terremoti del Quaternario, al fine di riconoscere quali edifici vulcanici e faglie potrebbero riattivarsi in futuro e con che modalitā.
This laboratory studies Quaternary earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in order to recognize which volcanic edifices and faults could reactivate in the near future and by which mechanisms.



 

VOLCANOLOGY AND VOLCANIC HAZARD

Methodologies and studies available at this Laboratory

Geological survey of active and Quaternary volcanoes

Petrographic and physical analyses of eruption products

Morphological analysis of edifices

Structural analysis of magmatic feeding systems

Study of landslides on volcanoes with numerical modelling

Physical scaled experiments

Reconstruction of caldera events

Tectonics and geodynamics of volcanic areas

Geotechnics and rock mechanics of volcanic rocks and loose deposits in collab. with other labs.

Dating of deposits by collaboration with the “Dating Center of Milan-Bicocca University”

Volcanic hazard and risk assessment

Areas under study

Italy

  Mt. Etna

  Stromboli

  Lipari

  Ischia

  Campi Flegrei

South America

  Cotopaxi, Ecuador

  Ollague, Chile

  La Puna caldera system, Argentina

Asia

  Philippines

 

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND SEISMIC HAZARD

Methodologies of study available at this Laboratory
Analysis of dislocations of Quaternary deposits and landforms
Morphological quantitative analysis of faults
Palaeoseismological techniques and trenches
Photointerpretation and remote sensing from satellites
Physical scaled experiments

Kinematic analysis of faults and stress tensor computations
Regional tectonics and geodynamics

Geotechnics and rock mechanics of hard and soft rocks in collaboration with other labs.

Dating of deposits by collaboration with the “Dating Center of Milan-Bicocca University”

Seismic risk evaluation by collaboration with INGV-Milan

Areas under study

Europe

  Italy

     Alps (Lombardia, Piemonte, Trentino Alto Adige)

     Sicily

     Ischia

     Aeolian islands

  Switzerland

South America

  Southern Andes of Colombia

  Northern Andes of Ecuador

  Northwestern Argentina

  Northern Chile

  Southwestern Bolivia

Far East

  Kamchatka

 

MAIN PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES AND FUNDING INSTITUTIONS

2004-2005 Italian Ministry of University and Research

2004-2005 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2003-2005 European Union Interreg

2003-2005 FIRB-MIUR

2003-2004 NATO

2001-2005 UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP

2000-04, 1991-96 and 1986-91 National Group for Volcanology

1997-00, 1996-99 and 1990-91 National Council of Researches

1993-1995 European Union

1987 World Bank for Developing Countries (BID)

1986-1987 National Space Agency

1986 Government of Kenya

 

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONS
Consejo Superior de Investigacion Cientifica de Espana 
Instituto Nacional de Geochimica y Mineralogia de Colombia
Observatorio Volcanologico de Pasto, Colombia
Universitad de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA

Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina, USA

Cantone dei Grigioni, Ufficio per l’Ambiente, Switzerland

Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

Brunel University, United Kingdom

National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines

Universitad de La Paz, Bolivia

Universitad de Salta, Argentina

 

NATIONAL COOPERATIONS

Universitā dell’Insubria

Universitā di Milano

Universitā di Roma Tre

Universitā di Urbino

Universitā di Parma

Universitā di Firenze

Universitā di Pisa

Istituto di Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, CNR

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Milano

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