Giacchino Giuliani says he wants an apology from officials who he says ignored his warnings.
Posted on 04/06/2009 10:24:13 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A researcher says he predicted Monday's devastating earthquake that killed dozens of people and left tens of thousands homeless in central Italy, but authorities dismissed him as a scaremonger.
Gioacchino Giuliani, an employee at a physics institute at Gran Sasso, near the badly-hit city of L'Aquila, has demanded an official apology for what he says was an unforgivable failure to act on his predictions.
"There are people who must apologize to me, and they must have the weight of what occurred on their conscience," Giuliani said after the quake hit, according to local news siteIlcapoluogo.com.
Last month, vans with loudspeakers drove around the area broadcasting Giuliani's warning after he claimed his method of predicting seismic events by radon gas emissions had forecast an imminent quake.
The scientist was reported to police for spreading false alarms and was made to remove his findings from the Internet. "They called me an imbecile," he said.
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Giacchino Giuliani says he wants an apology from officials who he says ignored his warnings.
and what were they suppose to do...move?
Earthquakes don’t kill people, falling buildings do. If you don’t have sufficient building codes for old unreinforced buildings, you are going to get third-world levels of casualties, regardless if you can predict one or not (which is very questionable).
There's something so amusingly European about that. Hahaha.
...they would have to level the whole country and start over.
(1) Stock up on essentials
(2) Perhaps do a few drills
I often say that atheists/humanists in power are just as dangerous as any religious fanatic when faced with people saying things they don't want thought, spoken or known.
With the strides in being able to hear tectonic movement before it does something big, to ignore vulcanologists when they start squeaking is a perilous thing to do.
OTOH, were it Washington DC or San Fran, I'd gladly let it slide into the ocean. But that's just me....
Last month, vans with loudspeakers drove around the area broadcasting Giuliani's warning after he claimed his method of predicting seismic events by radon gas emissions had forecast an imminent quake. The scientist was reported to police for spreading false alarms and was made to remove his findings from the Internet. "They called me an imbecile," he said.Oh, so that's what that van was. No wonder I couldn't make out what the guy was saying, he was speaking in Italian. I thought it was somebody complaining about McCain or Bush. ;')
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