Three thousand dead, nine thousand injured, 300 thousand homeless. And 'the figure of the disaster of the earthquake in Irpinia, thirty years ago. On 23 November 1980, a devastating earthquake struck the Basilicata and Campania , in particular the Irpinia there are more controversy for emergencies or older, that land today remember those moments and the support of many volunteers , which today also helped the population and a territory to survive. In a statement reminiscent of that disaster Caritas says that "our thoughts go to too many disasters that have wounded Italy: by the recent floods in Veneto, Tuscany, Campania, Calabria to Messina in landslides, the earthquake in Italy, only to mention the most egregious. " That tragic November 23, 1980, an earthquake shook a wide area between Campania and Basilicata. The area most affected is the heart of Irpinia, in the province of Avellino, but there are also serious damage in the provinces of Potenza, Naples, Salerno. Thirty years later are still open cracks minutes and 20 seconds that it has sown death and destruction, but has also generated an extraordinary solidarity. Behind the numbers frightening - about 3,000 dead, 9,000 injured, 300,000 homeless - as many stories stopped. Lives destroyed, mutilated, changed forever. The areas damaged were 280, 36 countries razed to the ground. Two dioceses mainly involved (Avellino and Potenza), 29 species affected. L `affected area measuring 27 thousand square kilometers, three times that of the earthquake in Friuli in 1976. Thirty years after "the catastrophic earthquake of November 23, 1980" - which, in 90 seconds terrible upset and changed the lives of vast areas of Irpinia and Basilicata (in the latter region, the reconstruction is 85 percent and need to complete the € 600 million) - is always longer necessary to "develop the culture of prediction and prevention." It is one of the cardinal points of the message the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano - recalling the "profound emotion" caused by the earthquake - released on the anniversary of the earthquake, while in power yesterday was the inauguration of the academic year in the course of 'University of Basilicata,' daughter 'of Law 281 of 1981 for the reconstruction of damaged areas. The "thread" of the prediction and prevention is now tied to the words spoken by Franco Gabrielli, head of the Civil Protection Department and Joseph Zamberletti, chairman of the Major Hazards. Thirty years later, their two are back in Basilicata: Gabriel came to Muro Lucano (Potenza) - one of the most affected by the earthquake - with a group of students of Pisa (and returned at Easter the following year) to help get up to Lucan. Zamberletti was asked to coordinate relief efforts to quake-hit population and is considered the "father" of Italian Civil Protection. Zamberletti Just remember that the institution of the University of Basilicata should not be seen "as compensation to the land but as a force for development and for the future of young people." The former military commissioner uses a comparison to explain the delay of 48 hours of support, which triggered strong controversy at the time: "The major forces Relief was in the Centre-North, and I was to command troops in a war already begun, and no battle plan, having been appointed 24 hours after the terrible shock. " That, according Zamberletti, is the exact moment in which it was conceived the modern Civil Defense: "Everyone understood that we had asked after the earthquake in Friuli was right, even if there had given." For geologists that tragedy was "a wasted opportunity for a real recovery plan and a valorisation of historical settlements tissues. Frank Peduto, president of the geologists of Campania, an accusation: "What and how common they are saved from the ugliness of the reconstruction? We must remember that some stone portals of St. Gregory the Great have been found even in the U.S.? Romagnano al Monte, near Salerno, Pompei the 2000, has been completely abandoned for non-technical and political choices: the country has been rebuilt a few miles away. The center looks like a new suburb and desolate in a big city. The beautiful old town, preserved until now because no one had gotten their hands, is being converted for tourist - cultural, while the inhabitants of Romagna have lost their history, their culture and will never come again. "
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