Federica La Longa

• Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

This study focuses on the risks that tourists would face during a tsunami on the island of Stromboli and discusses how to best inform and prepare them. Tsunamis affect coastal regions, where many of these are leisure destinations for tourists who often don’t have adequate knowledge of the region's risks. Due to their proximity to the affected areas...

Controversies that stir the public debate on geological matters usually revolve around a few specific aspects, including the actual trigger of geological phenomena (i.e., natural vs. anthropogenic), their predictability, and the trustworthiness of the experts who provide information and advice on the phenomena. A typical example of such difficultie...

The Tsunami Alert Centre of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (CAT-INGV) has been promoting, since 2018, the study of tsunami risk perception in Italy. Between 2018 and 2021 a semi-structured questionnaire on the perception of tsunami risk was administered to a sample of 5842 citizens residing in 450 Italian coastal municipalitie...

The Tsunami Warning Center of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (CAT-INGV) has been promoting, since 2018, the study of tsunami risk perception in Italy. Between 2018 and 2021 the semi-structured questionnaire on the perception of tsunami risk was administered to a sample of 5,842 citizens residing in 450 Italian coastal municipa...

This study was carried out as part of the international cooperation project “Agua Futura” for the improvement of water resource management and the promotion of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors in rural communities of Central America. Given the relevant healthcare problem of water pollution, especially in El Salvador, the aim was to d...

Objective: Social distancing, as experienced by the Italian population during the COVID-19 outbreak, generated the long-term activation of stress-response in individuals. This has been a crucial opportunity to study the coping strategies that people put in place to adapt their lives and habits to such a unique condition. For this reason, we have i...

Objective: Social distancing is crucial in order to flatten the curve of COVID-19 virus spreading. Isolation, scarcity of resources and the lack of social contacts may have produced a negative impact on people's emotions and psychological well-being. This study aims to explore the reasons and the ways through which social distancing generates nega...

The Italian Tsunami Alert Centre of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Centro di Allerta Tsunami, hereinafter CAT-INGV) supported a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) survey to investigate tsunami risk perception in two pilot regions of southern Italy. The survey was carried out on a stratified sample of 1021 interviewees...

According to a deep-rooted conviction, the occurrence of a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea would be very rare. However, in addition to the catastrophic event of Messina and Reggio Calabria (1908) and the saved danger for the tsunami occurred on Cycladic sea in 1956, 44 events are reported in the Mediterranean Sea between 1951 and 2003, and other s...

Il fenomeno sismico può influenzare in modo determinante alcune società. La Calabria è stata colpita nel passato da terremoti distruttivi che ne hanno segnato la storia: nella mappa di pericolosità sismica, è infatti una delle aree dove sono attesi gli scuotimenti più forti. A questa situazione si contrappone una distribuzione di sismicità strument...

Studies of risk perception examine the judgments that people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies (Slovic, 1987). Risk perception is a cognitive process involved in several daily activities that orients people’s behaviors on the impact of uncertain events. This process is both individual and co...

In late 2017 and early 2018 the Tsunami Alert Centre of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (hereinafter CAT-INGV) has put in place a pilot research on tsunami risk perception and understanding, first aimed at improving both risk and scientific communication strategies and activities. The research arises from a decennial...

In order to better address tsunami risk perception and understanding by people living in coastal areas, the CAT – INGV; the Tsunami Alert Centre of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, promoted and carried out a pilot survey on a stratified sample of >1000 residents in coastal municipalities across two regions of southern I...

Polar sciences represent a unique opportunity for scientific dissemination, not only for importance, multidisciplinary values and relapse of the polar researches, but, mainly, because it addresses and transmits ethical and social values as example of strong integration between human beings and extreme environments. In this frame, the idea to commun...

Nella Struttura Terremoti dell’INGV la Linea di Attività T5 “Sorveglianza sismica ed operatività post- terremoto” si occupa delle attività di sviluppo di strumenti e procedure per la valutazione in tempo reale degli effetti di terremoti e tsunami e della gestione delle emergenze sismiche. Uno dei suoi obiettivi del 2015 era la formalizzazione dei p...

In the framework of INGV Earthquake Department organization, the Research Activity named "Sorveglianza sismica ed operatività post-terremoto" (Seismic survey and post-earthquake operativity" (T5) takes care of the development of tools and procedures for the real time evaluation of earthquake effects and the management of seismic emergency. One of m...

The communication of natural hazards and their consequences is one of the more relevant ethical issues faced by scientists. In the last few years, social studies have provided evidence that risk communication is strongly influenced by the risk perception of the public. A theory that offers an integrative approach to understanding and explaining ris...

Le catastrofi hanno spesso un'incubazione molto lunga e più di un responsa-bile. Per queste ragioni non è possibile cogliere la complessità della vicenda giudiziaria conseguente al terremoto dell'Aquila se non si mettono da parte gli eccessi di semplificazione, i pregiudizi e la frettolosa ricerca di colpevoli. Questo volume si rivolge a chiunque a...

Geoethics has among its objectives to promote the recognition and enhancement of geological culture, as a wealth of knowledge that can contribute to the construction of a proper social knowledge, strengthening the link between population and territory and offering the opportunity to teach, especially the young, good behavior towards the geosphere....

The perception of risks involves the process of collecting, selecting and interpreting signals about uncertain impacts of events, activities or technologies. In the natural sciences the term risk seems to be clearly defined, it means the probability distribution of adverse effects, but the everyday use of risk has different connotations (Renn, 2008...

The history of rumours is as old as human history. Even in remote antiquity, rumours, gossip and hoax were always in circulation - in good or bad faith - to influence human affairs. Today with the development of mass media, rise of the internet and social networks, rumours are ubiquitous. The earthquakes, because of their characteristics of strong...

Studies have shown that narrative is a valid tool to transmit science in a school context. We explored science theatre to promote earthquake knowledge and risk preparedness by readapting an old legend describing the 1908 Messina earthquake into a script, which was then performed in a primary school. We evaluated the experience designing a questionn...

This study develops the critical reflections of the activities for information, training and education that have been conducted by a group of researchers of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in recent years. In particular, from an epistemological point of view, our analysis involves: (i) science outreach, the link between science a...

This study takes a soft scientific cut to talks about rumors, hoaxes and urban legends. Social psychology, more elegantly, uses the latin word rumor (rumour in British English), which means sound, voice, or gossip. In social, economical, political, cultural and scientific communication, rumors indicate news that is presumed true, that circulates wi...

The last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium have been marked by a strong focus on the past and, consequently, a proliferation of studies on memory. Perhaps this great attention to memory implies a new way of thinking and experiencing time and space, two categories that deeply changed by the phenomenon of cultur...

Italy is a country at risk of impending earthquake in the near future. Very probably, as it has already happened in the 13 years between the last two important seismic events (Colfiorito 1997- L'Aquila 2009), there won't be enough time to solve all the problems connected to seismic risk: first of all the corruption related to politics concerning bu...

Articolo all'interno del volume “Sintesi dei lavori del Workshop EDURISK 2002 – 2011 | 10 anni di progetti di educazione al rischio”, n. 13, ISSN 2039-6651, Miscellanea INGV, 2012

A seguito del terremoto del 6 aprile 2009 (MW=6.3) a L’Aquila, molte sono state le attività di campagna, rilevamento e monitoraggio avviate dall’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. Come in ogni emergenza, squadre di ricercatori e tecnici specializzati si sono mobilitate per l’installazione di reti di monitoraggio sismico, GPS, per il ri...

After the earthquake that struck L'Aquila (Central Italy) on April 6, 2009 (MW = 6.3), the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia staff have been involved actively in many field activities, surveys and high resolution monitoring of the epicentral area. As during every seismic emergency, several teams of researchers and qualified technicians...

THE NEW EMERGENCY STRUCTURE OF THE ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA DURING THE L’AQUILA 2009 SEISMIC SEQUENCE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE COES (SEISMOLOGICAL EMERGENCY OPERATION)

The Centro Nazionale Terremoti (CNT - National Earthquake Center), departement of Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), has designed and setup a rapid response emergency structure to face the occurrence of strong earthquakes. This structure is composed by a real time satellite telemetered temporary seismic network (see Abruzzese et...

In the last years the assessment of the science outreach activity has become a fundamental moment of the planning and realization of the activities of the Laboratorio of Didattica and Divulgazione Scientifica of Rome. On the occasion of the XVIII Edizione della Settimana della Cultura Scientifica e Tecnologica, we have established to experiment a n...