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イタリア中部地震を予測していた地元科学者が、市当局と警察の圧力で口封じされていたことが発覚！！
ラドンガスの濃度変化観察により、イタリアで間もなく大地震が起きると、
今回の地震発生から一ヶ月も前に予測していた科学者がいたが、
「市民にパニックを及ぼす」危険人物と見なされて市長の怒りを買い、
警察に通報され、地震警報のウェブ情報をむりやり削除されていたことが発覚した。
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L6566682.htm
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake
06 Apr 2009 11:22:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Gavin Jones
ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.
Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.
Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.
Italy's Civil Protection agency held a meeting of the Major Risks Committee, grouping scientists charged with assessing such risks, in L'Aquila on March 31 to reassure the townspeople.
"The tremors being felt by the population are part of a typical sequence ... (which is) absolutely normal in a seismic area like the one around L'Aquila," the civil protection agency said in a statement on the eve of that meeting.
"It is useful to underline that it is not in any way possible to predict an earthquake," it said, adding that the agency saw no reason for alarm but was nonetheless effecting "continuous monitoring and attention".
As the media asked questions about the authorities' alleged failure to safeguard the population ahead of the quake, the head of the National Geophysics Institute dismissed Giuliani's predictions.
"Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it," he said. "As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes."
Enzo Boschi said the real problem for Italy was a long-standing failure to take proper precautions despite a history of tragic quakes.
"We have earthquakes but then we forget and do nothing. It's not in our culture to take precautions or build in an appropriate way in areas where there could be strong earthquakes," he said.
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Aerial view of collapsed buildings around L'aquila April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake struck central Italy early on Monday, killing more than 100 people, making up to 50,000 homeless and flattening entire medieval towns while residents slept. REUTERS/Livio Anticoli/Pool (ITALY DISASTER)
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A nun walks at a tent camp in Aquila April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake struck a swathe of central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing more than 90 people and flattening whole towns. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY DISASTER)
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A couple keep warm as they rest sit at a tent camp in Aquila April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake struck a huge swathe of central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing at least 16 people when houses, churches and other buildings collapsed, officials said. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY DISASTER)
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/06/italy.quake.prediction/
updated 33 minutes ago
Scientist: My quake prediction was ignored
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●Story Highlights
・Scientist says his warning of a quake in L'Aquila was ignored
・Gioacchino Giuliani says his system for monitoring radon predicts quakes
・Giuliani demands apology from authorities
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L'AQUILA, Italy (CNN) -- 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.
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Giacchino Giuliani says he wants an apology from officials who he says ignored his warnings.
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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 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.
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.
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.
-- CNN's Barry Neild and Gisella Deputato contributed to this report
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http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20090406AT2M0603D06042009.html
（日経新聞：09年4月7日 01:09）
イタリア中部地震、死者100人超す 首相が非常事態宣言
【ジュネーブ＝藤田剛】イタリア中部で6日未明（日本時間同日午前）に起きたマグニチュード（Ｍ）6.3の地震による死者は同日午後時点で100人を超え、負傷者も1500人に達した。ＡＦＰ通信などが報じた。現地では朝から救出作業が本格化したが、道路が寸断され病院も被災。被害はさらに拡大する可能性が高い。5万人が家屋を失ったとの情報もある。
同国のベルルスコーニ首相は予定していたロシア訪問を急きょ中止し、非常事態を宣言。被災者救援のため政府が資金を拠出することを決めた。
震源地に近いアブルッツォ州ラクイラはローマ北東約100キロに位置する中世の建築物が数多く残る観光地。歴史的建造物の教会や城郭が破壊されたもよう。在イタリア日本大使館は「在留届を出している14人の日本人全員の無事を確認した」としている。 (01:09)
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- 地震予知の東海アマ、イタリア地震を一応予知。 てんさい（い） 2009/4/07 04:29:41
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- Re: いつも「非常事態」と言っていればその内当たります。 お邪魔虫 2009/4/16 23:20:21
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- Re: いつも「非常事態」と言っていればその内当たります。 お邪魔虫 2009/4/16 23:20:21
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