Murrin migrated from geophysics in 1986 to trading currency, bullion and equities for JPMorgan.
Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said the quake struck at 15:48 (14:48 GMT), with its epicentre in Garfagnana.
The measurements have been used to construct a precise topographical map of Mars with many applications in geophysics, geology and atmospheric circulation.
Co-sponsors of the workshop include the US National Science Foundation, UNAVCO, University of Colorado, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and Tribhuvan University.
Experts said Iran was spared from massive casualties and damages that could typically result from an earthquake of this magnitude because of geography and geophysics.
Scientific approaches and techniques of different disciplines are to be employed, such as tectonics, paleogeography, paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, petrology, geochemistry, paleomagnetism, and geophysics.
At Bristol University, researchers led by Matt Watson, a professor of geophysics, are trying to determine which particles would have the maximum desired impact with the smallest likelihood of unwanted side effects.
Gregory Beroza, chairman of the department of geophysics at Stanford University, said he was disappointed by the verdict, but added that scientists need to continue to communicate risk better with the public.
Volcanologist Sonia Calvari, of the Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania (INGV-CT), said rapid advances in technology enable experts to use a wide range of methods to continually map and monitor Etna from a distance.
"Because the maximum thickness of these small, low-altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades, " said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.
Fabio Picuti, the public prosecutor, stresses that the charge is not about whether the experts, who included Enzo Boschi, then president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV), should have predicted exactly when, where and with what force the earthquake would have struck.
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