337. Another Earthquake hits Italy
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| A guitar found among the rubble of the 2009 earthquake at Aquila |
At
1.05 this morning a strong earth tremor of 5.0
magnitude hit Cosenza in Calabria- the toe of the boot of Italy. One person
reported dead from heart failure and damages to the city centre. There have been tremours throughout the year
but were intensified during the last three months. However if you ask anyone in
charge of giving seismologic information, journalists have
complained the only answer you get is that science is not capable of providing
adequate information on the matter. Now,
you know what that sounds like, don’t you? Exactly! Getting their own back on
the recent sentence against the scientists condemned for manslaughter in the
events over the earthquake in Aquila in 2009.
At this point, if science is not able to provide any
information on the status of this morning’s earthquake I suggest the government
close these offices and send all such officials packing. Not much point that we
tax payers pay generously for being told utter nonsense.
Yes, because that was precisely what happened back on March 30th
2009 when the Commission for High Risk told Aquilanians to go safely back to
their beds as there would be no earthquake of a damaging nature, in spite of
what, in their opinion, an unofficial, amateur lab technician, Giampaolo
Giuliano was saying. The radon detected by Giuliano which caused a fracture in
the earth and was therefore being released was a good sign of steam being let
out from the earth which was causing the continuous earth tremeous, so the more
gas that was released, the more tremours there would be, the better it was… Such
officials led people to believe, that the Aquila area was a pressure pan cooker
letting out steam, and if it didn’t it, it would blow up.
But that was precisely the opposite of what this “amateur” scientist
was claiming. Giuliano was claiming that where radon was detected the chances
of a massive earthquake were close. And although this being a theory not scientifically proven- as it
turned out, Giuliano was nevertheless
right.
To shut Giuliano
up the officials cited him accusing him of spreading public alarm, forbade him
to make further announcements and, I detect a note of spite here, proclaimed
the completed opposite of what he was claiming… namely the more tremours, the
less danger, so residents recall. Instead of setting up safety precautions outside, the commission sent people off to die in their beds.
The
statements that indicated there would be no earthquake of great danger was as
if, for the 309 people killed, a pronounced death sentence. And why? All
because of point scoring- putting into place an “amateur” who was outwitting
the scientific community? Because it is not possible that scientists are so
ignorant in matters where they are experts.
Maybe these
people will get off the hook on appeal, but I wrote this article since one
member of that commission said he did not know what he was guilty of, I thought
I had better spell it out for him. Also to remind the scientific community, who
are behaving like jerks with the present earthquake in Calabria, that you can’t
play at point scoring when it comes to people’s lives- that’s murder!
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