Giampaolo Giuliani told locals to evacuate their houses and posted a video on YouTube in which he said a build-up of radon gas around the seismically active area of Abruzzo suggested a major earthquake was imminent.
Several tremors had been felt in the medieval city of L’Aquila, around 60 miles east of Rome, from mid-January onwards, and vans with loudspeakers had reportedly driven around the city spreading the warning. But instead of heeding Mr Giuliani’s advice, the local authorities reported him to police for “spreading alarm” and he was told to remove his findings from the internet.
Even after he was proved right, civic leaders effectively dismissed him as a maverick whose accurate prediction was little more than a fluke. As the row escalated yesterday, the Italian president, Silvio Berlusconi, was among those having to fend off angry questions about whether the area should have been evacuated in the light of the warnings. Maria Francesco, a survivor of the earthquake who lives in L’Aquila, said: “It’s a scandal what’s happened. For the past three months there have been regular tremors, and they’ve been getting stronger and stronger. The authorities were well aware.”
Mr Giuliani, a researcher at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory near L’Aquila, has now demanded an apology over the attempts to gag him. He said: “There are people out there who should be offering me apologies – and whose conscience should bear the full weight of what has happened.” He added: “It is not true to say that earthquakes cannot be predicted. We have been able to predict events for almost ten years in a range of 120-150 kilometres from our detectors.
“In the last three days we saw a large increase of Radon. Large increases of Radon, above safety thresholds, mean strong earthquakes. “Even classic technology could have been used to predict it. My seismograph indicated a strong earthquake and we had it online, everybody could watch it, and many did and realised that the tremors were increasing.”
This story reminds me of Jim Berkland, the California geologist who predicted in the newspapers the 1989 quake in San Francisco one day prior to the event. Suspended from his position and told not to make any more predictions, he resigned.
#16, Cow-Patty, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, Real Leading Troll Extraordinare, International Copyright Specialist and now World Unknown Geologist.
It primarily collects in basements from surrounding soil/rock. NOT from seeping UP from MILES down. Idiot. Study some geology.
Oopps, you aren’t a physics expert so you don’t understand that lighter fluids and gasses will rise. Since Radon is lighter than the rock, it will rise. It settles in basements because there is nothing beneath it pushing it up.
Radon is quite often found in oil deposits. Most oil refineries will show signs of radioactivity because of the amount of radon gas that passes through the pipes. This can be readily measured in pipes that collect and carry propane which has similar boiling temperatures to radon.
Get a brain moran!!!
# 18 McCullough said, “Gee really? That’s the best you got”
That’s all I need. Do you have verified data showing radon is being pushed up from miles down into houses?
Thought not. I can imagine what your nephew cleans for you. LOL
More on the subject in “Science”: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/more-on-quake-r.html
#22 Cow-Patty, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, Real Leading Troll Extraordinare, International Copyright Specialist and now World Unknown Geologist.
If you had more than used popcycles sticks between your ears you would have researched a little of this already.
Radon is usually found in granite or shale formations. Both are old rocks and are usually covered by other rocks, such as limestone. If the granite rock is at the surface then the gas will be more inclined to be released. If the granite is deeper or covered by another rock, any gas will be released in cracks and find its way to the surface that way.
So far four people have called you out. You ignored the posted links. You ignore the science. You ignored any semblance of a rational disputation. If you have some evidence, YOU POST A EFFEN LINK SAYING EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG.
Get a brain moran.