Geological Disasters in the Philippines: The July 1990 Earthquake and the 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo Paperback - 2012

Giovanni Rantucci received his Degree in Geology in 1964, his career started in 1967 in Croydon (UK) as a geophysicist in the evaluation of seismic refraction field data. From 1968 to 1982 he worked in developing countries as a geotechnical expert in the design and rehabilitation of roads. In the period 1983-1989 he served as Associate Professor in the Division of Geotechnical Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok in a project financed by the Italian Cooperation, through the UNDP. During an assignment as a consultant in Central Luzon (Philippines) he witnessed the devastating effects of the July 1990 Luzon Earthquake, the June 1991 eruption of Pinatubo and the related primary and secondary effects. From 1992 2002 he worked under the Italian Cooperation (Central Technical Unit) in Rome in evaluation and financing of projects in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. In 1994 he wrote the book "Geological Disasters in the Philippines", in 1995, soon after the January earthquake he visited Kobe and Osaka in Japan and co-authored " Il Terrmoto di Kobe" (in Italian) and retired in 2002. His latest book "The Global Environmental Crisis" will be distributed by Amazon in July 2012.