Chronique d'un séisme annoncé Série-Collection : Les Grandes Questions scientifiques

Gilles Sévastos
2002 - 52 min - Betacam - Couleur - France

In Greece there is a major earthquake on average every 10 years. Faced with this kind of disaster, the question is always the same: can we foresee an earthquake? Today no, answer the scientists. But tomorrow... Since 2000, Pascal Bernard, a seismologist at the Institute de physique du globe in Paris, has been taking part in an ambitious project for a European seismic observatory, which will concentrate, on a precise fault in the Gulf of Corinth, the Aigion fault. Meantime, the only solution is to prepare. Today architects and engineers know how to construct buildings which can resist earthquakes, as witness the visit by a specialist engineer to the reconstruction of the town of Aigion or the visit of a research laboratory studying earthquake-resistant constructions, in Grenoble. And contrary to what is thought, building earthquake-resistant buildings is not necessarily very expensive...