FNC reported last night in the 6:00 hour that there is an agency in Austria that measures both atomic and seismic acativity.
Because of the Christmas holiday, no one was in the agency to relay the information.
Can you imagine the outrage if this was a United States agency?
This looks like someone fishing for a job more than an serious warning. The only bit missing was sending the bank account number. I would have ignored it as a scam as well.
Bump.
1. The funding for the study this guy is proposing to do is evaluated, found valuable enough to spend money on, and approved.
2. The bureaucracy disperses the funding to this guy.
3. He hires staff, purchases equipment, and performs his study.
4. The data he tabulates is condensed into an actual government document, peer reviewed, and issued to the government in question. In this report, he proposes the first ever, in this part of the world, design, purchase, and implementation of devices which would monitor the area for seismic activity, tsunami activity, and the creation of an early warning system for these primitive people on these two remote islands.
5. The government reviews the report in detail, and then decides that the proposal is completely valid, and should be pursued, with minimal (if any) changes or revisions.
6. A funding source is found for the (likely) millions of dollars to be spent on all this equipment, and the installation, and testing and commissioning of this system.
7. The government takes bids for the complete implementation of this system, including purchasing, construction/installation, programming, testing, de-bugging, and hiring staff and training them to use the system effectively.
8. The bids are received by the government, approved, and the contract is awarded to some company capable of effectively managing a project of this size/scope.
9. Purchasing of all of this equipment is completed, installation of all of this equipment and software is completed, testing/commissioning of all the entire system, including resolving any and all "glitches" is completed, hiring and training of the staff to operate/utilize this system is completed, and the primitive islanders who are supposed to benefit from this system is performed.
10. Now, after all that, when the "the big one" hits on December 26 (less than 5 months after the date of this memo), everything will pretty much go according to plan, and so prevent a tragic loss of life.
And the unstated supposition is, that because this wasn't accomplished in a few months, the government was completely remiss in safeguarding these people.
That just seems like a HUGE stretch to me. Some may have another opinion.