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Raffaele Bendandi, who claimed to have forecast numerous earthquakes, predicted a big one.

10 May,2011 09:00 pm

Thousands of local Romans have left town in fear of a devastating earthquake allegedly forecast for that day by a long-dead seismologist.Raffaele Bendandi, who claimed to have forecast numerous earthquakes, predicted a big one in Rome on May 11 so in fear of his prediction many have fled from the towns. For months Italian internet sites, blogs and social networks have been debating over the predicted earthquake. The civil protection agency has issued statements reiterating the official scientific view that earthquakes cant be predicted. Memories are still vivid of the 2009 earthquake in LAquila, which killed more than 300 people and was also felt in Rome.Bendandi, who died in 1979 aged 86, believed earthquakes were the result of the combined movements of the planets, the moon and the sun and were perfectly predictable. In 1923 he forecast a quake would hit the central Adriatic region of the Marches on January 2 the following year, he was wrong by two days only.