{"id":20643,"date":"2016-12-08T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T08:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=20643"},"modified":"2016-12-08T08:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T08:02:59","slug":"civita-di-bagnoregio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/12\/08\/civita-di-bagnoregio\/","title":{"rendered":"Civita di Bagnoregio: the worlds first landslide museum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Civita di Bagnoregio: the worlds first landslide museum?<\/h5>\n<p>The village of Civita di Bagnoregio in the Province of Viterbo of Central Italy is located about 120 km from Rome.\u00a0 The settlement was founded about 2500 years ago, but was essentially abandoned in at the end of the 17th Century as a result of a major earthquake on 11th June 1695, which triggered a major landslide below the town.\u00a0 The vulnerability of this site to landslides in evident from photographs of the village:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20647\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20647\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20647\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/12\/16_12-Civita-1-e1481181746696.jpg\" alt=\"Civita di Bagnoregio\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The village of Civita di Bagnoregio via nomocch on Panoromio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The town is located on a cliff 200 m high formed from a c.20 m thick layer of jointed Quaternary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ignimbrite\">ignimbrite<\/a> (a deposit formed from pumice fragments deposited by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyroclastic_flow\">pyroclastic flows<\/a>) sitting over a layered pyroclastic deposit.\u00a0 Sitting below this is a weak Tertiary clay formation.\u00a0 This is a classic setting for landslides, of which\u00a0Civita di Bagnoregio has a long history.\u00a0 Indeed, in a new paper in Landslides, <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10346-016-0778-3\">Margottini and Di Buduo (2016) document<\/a> over 150 landslide events dating back to 1373 AD, but noting that this might well be an underestimate.\u00a0 A quick look at the Google Earth imagery explains why:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20651\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20651\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/12\/16_12-Civita-2-e1481182435304.jpg\" alt=\"Civita di Bagnoregio\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth imagery of the village of Civita di Bagnoregio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years the town has gone through something of a revival due to tourism, perhaps unsurprisingly.\u00a0 To capitalise, the local government (Administration of Bagnoregio) has established a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museogeologicoedellefrane.it\/en\/\">Geological and Landslide Museum<\/a> in the Palazzo Alemanni in the centre of the village.\u00a0 The museum opened in April 2012.\u00a0 It cover three floors, dedicated to providing information about research on landslides.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly there is a strong focus on the nature and impact of landslides in the Civita di Bagnoregio locality.\u00a0 The museum also organises conferences, temporary exhibitions and educational activities.<\/p>\n<p>I am not aware of any other museum dedicated to landslides.\u00a0 I have yet to visit &#8211; I think a trip to Italy might be in order!<\/p>\n<h5>Reference<\/h5>\n<p>Margottini, C. &amp; Di Buduo, G. 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10346-016-0778-3\">The Geological and Landslides Museum of Civita di Bagnoregio (Central Italy)<\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Landslides<\/em> doi:10.1007\/s10346-016-0778-3<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the small historic village of Civita di Bagnoregio is located what may be the worlds first museum dedicated to landslides<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[144,469,36,1214],"class_list":["post-20643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-italy","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}