Weeks before the earthquake in Aquila, Seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani, who lives in Aquila, was reported to police for “spreading alarm” — he was predicting a major quake based on concentrations of radon gas found around seismically active areas — and he was forced to remove his findings from the Internet:
Civil Protection assured locals at the end of March that tremors being felt were “absolutely normal” for a seismic area.