Danny Mitzman
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36 appearances
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first heard Apr 2013
last heard Apr 2013
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Coming up, a powerful earthquake hits central Italy.
We'll have the latest from rescue workers.
It's a different kind of aftershock.
As Francesca Maffini from the Civil Protection Department explains, it's not the verdict itself, it's the very fact they were put on trial.
She says it's inevitable that scientists are now erring on the side of caution when informing decision-makers like them.
If the risk is between zero and 40%, today they'll tell us it's 40%, even if they think it's closer to zero%.
They're protecting themselves, which is perfectly understandable.
Seismic areas are now subject to a sort of post-Aquila paradox, the authorities feeling obliged to predict the unpredictable.
Everyone knows you can't predict an earthquake, says Anne Thornley-Bennett.
So why, on January 31st, did she decide to evacuate when the local council sent out warnings of a major quake due to strike overnight?
We just went along with the mania, she sighs.
When you've got little ones, well, if anything did happen, you'd never forgive yourself.
Anne and her husband live in the picturesque but highly seismic Garfagnana region of Tuscany.
For a week they'd been experiencing constant tremors and aftershocks of up to 3.8 on the Richter scale.
One day the kids were even evacuated from school without their coats.
She giggles, realising I'd appreciate that only a real emergency would see Italian children being sent outside coatless in winter.
I wanted to know more about what Anne called the mania.
The local populations never mass panicked like this before.
It seems to be driven by the fact that modern technology has put the science into people's pockets.
Everyone here in our town, Barga, was jittery, says Anne.
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