[JoeProBono]

Giacchino Giuliani says he wants an apology from officials who he says ignored his warnings.

[Always Right]

and what were they suppose to do...move?

[JoeProBono]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512762,00.html

[PC99]

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).

[americanophile]

"There are people who must apologize to me"

There's something so amusingly European about that. Hahaha.

[SaraJohnson]

A lot of power goes to the official, group, or government who can threaten those with ideas they don't want the public to consider. Europe has truly progressed backwards. They are back to threatening, smearing and arresting scientists with information and ideas they don't want the public to know.

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.

[Othniel]

Back in the 80's there was a volcano in Columbia that scientists said was going to blow based on measurements of CO2, rumblings, etc. They were ignored. The volcano blew, melted a bunch of ice, and the ice combined with mud & debris to wipe out the town of Armero. 30K dead, I think.

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....

[SunkenCiv]

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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