The new brand of Salerno city

10 march 2011: Marco De Sangro, a student in engineering from Taranto participates to a competition "Un brand per Salerno", open to young designers and aimed at proposing a new logo for the city of Salerno. His logo gets the first place, and the prize (not yet paid) is 3,000 Euro. 

22 November 2011: the designer Massimo Vignelli, under request of the major of Salerno, Vincenzo de Luca, proposes a new logo for the city. The price for it is 200,000 Euro. Here are the logos: 

On the left: 3,000 Euro; on the right: 200,000 Euro.

The logo from Marco De Sangro

The 200.000 Euro logo

22 November 2011: the designer Massimo Vignelli, under request of the major of Salerno, Vincenzo de Luca, proposes a new logo for the city. The price for it is 200,000 Euro. 

Many citizens complained (read here for a summary), but the Major Vincenzo De Luca tells us to respect the talented geniuses, and compares the logo to the Tour Eiffel. Quite cheap to be the Tour Eiffel, uh!?

Yellow Tour Eiffel above a blue background: almost like the new Salerno brand

Now, the social media are all busy to find to what the new Salerno logo look like.

Active tectonics and earthquake geology in Greece

Ancient roman harbor in Kechries

I participated to the 2nd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering, held on 19th-24th September 2011, in Corinth, Greece. It was a very nice workshop. More info on http://www.paleoseismicity.org/corinth-2011/.

Data Driven Fitting

A common issue in data analysis is to discern between model-driven results and data-driven results. Model driven results is when we produce a curve fit using a parametric equation, based on a relationship between our variables. For this purpose, we assume some knowledge about the underlying process. Data driven result is when we produce a curve fit using a non-parametric equation. The only thing that we have to work with is the data. We don't have any information about the "true" relationship between the variables.

EEPAS and earthquake rupture directivity

I got interested into the following in-press papers.

• Rhoades et al. (2011) test the performance of The Every Earthquake a Precursor According to Scale (EEPAS) model in California and Japan, with promising results for long-range predictability. 
• Zaliapin and Ben-Zion (2011) find that strong asymmetric aftershock patterns develop along large faults when large velocity contrasts are present, thus suggesting that the directivity of the earthquake rupture could be conditioned by the fault structure.

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Hi! I started this blog because I want something to be read without requiring registration, and because writing on my website is too much hassle - it takes too long to get organized. I wanted a place where to write quickly enough, like a notebook, but still with indexing features. I don't know yet if I will use italian or english, I'll try to use both for a while - maybe I'll find a way to add automatic translation. Have a nice evening!