Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L6566682.htm


Source: Reuters
By Gavin Jones

ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.

The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.

Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.

Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.

Italy's Civil Protection agency held a meeting of the Major Risks Committee, grouping scientists charged with assessing such risks, in L'Aquila on March 31 to reassure the townspeople.

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1. One can only imagine...

... the anger and uproar this is going to start.

And rightfully so!!

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2. Seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani toured the medieval mountain town in a van with loudspeakers warnin

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1167891/Italian-quake-death-toll-rises-150-emerges-scientist-warned-residents-flee-week-ago.html

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3. the problem is... for everyone of these that are right, there are so many more that are wrong.

so do we run/hide/evacuate every time someone has a hunch? do we live in perpetual fear?

???