Italy Jails Seismologists for Quake Deaths
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 30th, 2011 4:45 am by HL
Italy Jails Seismologists for Quake Deaths
Six seismologists and a government official are being tried for manslaughter in the deaths of more than 300 people in a 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy. The city’s public prosecutor says the scientists downplayed the possibility of a quake to an extent that townsfolk did not take precautions that could have saved their lives.