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Man Says Italy Ignored Quake Warning

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posted: 2 HOURS 34 MINUTES AGO
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(April 6) - 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.
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"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 site Ilcapoluogo.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.
According IlCapoluogo, Giuliani gave an interview as recently as March 24 in which he repeated his claims.
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Local authorities have insisted Monday's 6.3-magnitude event was part of a sequence of tremors in a quake-prone area and neither the size nor the timing was possible to predict. advertisement
Giuliani said he was monitoring radon concentrations ahead of Monday's quake, but knew the authorities would press charges against him if he repeated his warning.
"last night I did not know who to talk to. I could see the situation was deteriorating and there was nothing I could do," he said, according to IlCapoluogo.
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2009-04-06 17:13:02
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Bdact0r2

01:05 AMApr 07 2009

DAMN..MY BYTCH QUEEFED......THAT STINKS YO.

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Ran264

01:02 AMApr 07 2009

and big brother will protect you... Big brother is a monster that will not listen to anyone, especially the people. Big brother is ruining the world before our eyes and nothing can stop it. Big brother is greed sucking the lifeblood from the working class while taxing those things that the working class are usually the ones to use the most. Big Brother is nothing but a out of control machine called government. Check out Reason dot com. We are all doomed by big brother who is deaf and blind.

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Uc2it4us

12:57 AMApr 07 2009

RIGHT!

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Bdact0r2

12:55 AMApr 07 2009

LOL..................YEAH

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Uc2it4us

12:55 AMApr 07 2009

I was working in Mexico City for the US State Dep't in '85 when the 8.3 quake hit. There was absolutely no warning, but the 7.6 one that hit a few days later had hundreds of minor quakes prior to it. It was my first earthquake, and I was on the 17th floor of the El Presidente when it hit. Being from New Orleans, it was a new experience. But, riding out Katrina was worse. It hit during the night and go on forever! Sorry, typo!

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Uc2it4us

12:52 AMApr 07 2009

I was working in Mexico City for the US State Dep't in '85 when the 8.3 quake hit. There was absolutely no warning, but the 7.6 one that hit a few days later had hundreds of minor quakes prior to it. It was my first earthquake, and I was on the 17th floor of the El Presidente when it hit. Being from New Orleans, it was a new experience. But, riding out Katina was worse. They hit during the night and go on forever!

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Bdact0r2

12:48 AMApr 07 2009

Remarine............IM TOO SEXY FOR MY BODY...TOO SEXY FOR MY BODY THE WAY IM DISCO DANCING

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MMDBEAMER

12:48 AMApr 07 2009

An apology is the very least, an apology is not enough.Called him an imbecile, huh?Smart, intelligent imbecile is what he is.Must be thousands of them.

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D2badd

12:47 AMApr 07 2009

Sue them.

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Blondey56342

12:47 AMApr 07 2009

There for those of you who seem too think you are more educated then these people like this guy yeah right your prob. the kind who don't care about certain weather till it happens if not sad. By the comments you are not well educated like this guy & have no clue about things like these if you do great but I doubt it if not stop right there of what your typing because you have no clue............

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