Italy Searches For Survivors, Authorities Ignored Warning?
While residents east of Rome slept this morning, a deadly quake shook the earth. As of now, almost 100 people have died, 1,500 were injured, and tens of thousands are homeless. The
search for survivors continues in the medieval town of L'Aquilla, and camps have been set up for those who lost their homes.
About a month ago, seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake in the area. Vans equipped with loudspeakers went around telling people to evacuate their homes. But the local authorities accused the scientist of spreading panic, and he was forced to remove his warning from the Internet. While many claim that its impossible to predict earthquakes, this sounds like a dangerous form of censorship!
Check out photos of the destruction and recovery in this slideshow.
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While it's sad about the destruction and death toll and these pictures are moving, I'm not really getting your headline Citizen: "Italy Searched For Survivors, Authorities Ignored Warning?" How do these photos show/explain that the authorities ignored warnings? What warnings? Sorry, but I'd just like a little more story here for that kind of headline.
1Sorry scratch my comment. After I posted my comment, I got more information on the slideshow. Apologies.
2I'd want to know more about Guiliani before I'd claim he was being censored. How often did he predict quakes, how specific was he being this time (sadly, if everyone had evacuated a month ago, they likely would have decided he was a quack and gone back home after a week, two at the most).
3There's a little controversy regarding this "prediction". As far as I know, Giuliani predicted a big earthquake based on a pattern of smaller quakes in the previous months. People were alarmed but nothing really happened, and authorities didn't care too much.
4Not sure tho. The medias here aren't actually talking a lot about this - right now everyone is concerned with other issue.. trying to find and save the missing people and find a place for thousand of survivors left without an home, there's not much place for controversy right now.
this is so sad!!
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