Posts Tagged ‘ Synolakis ’

Science the Messenger Gagged

November 1, 2012
Science the Messenger Gagged

COSTAS SYNOLAKIS, professor of environmental enginering, Viterbi School of Engineering.

This op-ed originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

It is impossible to predict earthquakes with the precision that would have helped the 300 people who died as a result of the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, on April 6, 2009. It is equally difficult, apparently, to predict court decisions. After a 13-month trial, six scientists and one government official were sentenced to six years in jail Monday for giving authorities information...

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How to Prevent Another Titantic

April 13, 2012
How to Prevent Another Titantic

COSTAS SYNOLAKIS, professor of civil and environmental engineering, USC Viterbi.

his op-ed originally appeared at the HuffingtonPost.

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is now with us. Dozens of events have been planned and the story keeps enthralling us, despite the fact that so few of us travel by large ocean liners anymore. For the record, the beginning of our fascination with disasters of titanic proportions started with the great Lisbon tsunami of 1755, which changed the...

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