Modena earthquake

Any consequences?

Very busy so did not have tome to call anyone in Modena and nearby but I hope all are and is well.

best regards,

Marc

 

We were in Brescia and it woke me up. Quite some damage and 7 people were killed. We drove right through the epicentre during the MM two days before.
Ciao
Oscar

Ps why in the vintage section?

 

Thank you Oscar.

The vintage section is the one where the more...non ignorant people can be found i.e. able to think of other things and the only one of two I frequent when I have time.

Will place a few calls to friends in Modena tomorrow.

I know one Modenese historian whose house was under stress because he has sooo many books many thousands and the terrain is unstable. He has an engineer/architect visit every month to check stress crack measurements...

best regards,

Marc

 

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/ferrari-and-lamborghini-report-normal-operations-after-quake/

 

My aunt lives 45 minutes from Maranello in the Appenines and she didn't even note it. One of my cousins lives on the boarder of Modena and Mantova and the quake there was pretty bad. 6 on the Richter scale is pretty horrendous.

 

Well I heard back from Matteo Panini whose museum suffered a jolt but no damage, Adolfo Orsi who has none either but another friend of mine who works for Maserati and lives near the epicenter reports that he, his wife and children are too unnerved by the aftershocks and are sleeping in their car for the second night tonight: their house was undamaged but lots of things thrown about and they are very shaken.

Reminds me of the 1970 Lisbon and 1989 San Francisco quakes in which I found myself: you really don't want to go back inside.

At least no damage to the factories or any of the Modenese automotive culture...

best regards,

Marc

 

I am currently in Maranello since Friday, there was no damage, ditto of Modena (in the corner of Casa Museum) and the road to go to Pagani

 

make sure your friends car is not vulnerable!
a falling brick wall will flatten it quite easily....

 

I live about 5km from the factory and me and my wife were woken on Sunday at 4am by the "big one". I can tell you I was scared. Luckily my kids slept through it. Since then there have been well over 300 smaller earthquakes around 2 to 3 on the richter scale. An hour ago we had a couple around 4 and everything was swinging again.

People are really scared. Nothing like this has happened around here in living memory, this area is not considered a high risk zone. The experts have not been too reassuring because they say they have no clue how this will play out!

We've moved our furniture and beds around to minimise the risk of furniture falling on us in case of a biq quake while we sleep.

Let's see how it goes...

 

Another earthquake today in Emilia-Romagna... Very bad.

 

And this time unfortunately even nearer to Modena...
Hope nobody from the Maserati/Ferrari comunity lost its life, but we think about those killed in the earthquake!

 

Terrible just spoke at lenght to Fabio Collina of the Maserati factory's Classiche department.

He felt an aftershock as we spoke, he said the factory is closed now. He did not mention damage there nor do I think there is from what he said but we were talking about his village which is near the epicenter and where there was a lot of damage.

My thoughts are with the wonderful people of that region many of whom I saw at Villa d'Este this weekend...

MS

 

Automotive News reported that Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini all closed their plants today, sent their employees home to be with their families and production resumes tomorrow. 5000 workers are affected.

 

I know for sure that nothing happened at the two Pagani facilities in San Cesario Sul Panaro.
No damages to goods and/or structures, and thank God no workers were affected/injured. For sure, a lot of fear and scary moments, and surely aftershocks aren't helping at all.

 

Do people here actually care about fatalities, injured persons or destroyed HOMES? Why giving a damn about closed/damaged factories when it's the civilians who take the full brunt of the quake?