The Academy’s second Study Week addressed the “Problem of Microearthquakes” and took place from 19 to 26 November 1951. Like the first Study Week, it held its sessions at the Casina Pio IV, headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in the Vatican gardens.
The Study Week was chaired by Pontifical Academician, H.E. Prof. Francesco Vercelli, Director of the Oceanographic Institute of Trieste, Director of the Geophysical Observatory of Trieste and President of the Italian Geophysical Association. The Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pietro Salviucci, was responsible for the general organization of the Study Week, while the scientific organization was entrusted to the Secretary General of the Study Week, Prof. Giorgio Roncali, from Rome University, Director of the Central Office of Meteorology and Agrarian Ecology.
The participating experts gave some technical demonstrations and projections. There were two sessions per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and each session was chaired by a different participant.