5.3 Quake Rocks Madrid – Predicted by Raffaele Bendani?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLd73FgtyA

Seven people were killed Wednesday when an earthquake struck southeastern Spain, the central government’s chief representative in the region told National Spanish Radio.

The 5.3-magnitude quake occurred at 4:47 p.m. (10:47 a.m. ET) and was centered about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Murcia, near the Mediterranean coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. That is about 350 kilometers (218 miles) south-southeast of Madrid.

The strange part? Raffaele Bendani, a seismologist who forecast in 1915 that a “big one” would hit Rome on Wednesday.  Rome is around 770 miles away from the epicenter in Spain.  A coincidence? You decide

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2 Responses to 5.3 Quake Rocks Madrid – Predicted by Raffaele Bendani?

  1. Kaoh says:

    Spain is not Italy and 5.1 is not what I would call a “big one” (8.9 in Japan killing thousands and thousands of people was a “big one”), so he was just wrong ;-)

    • Eric says:

      We completely agree Kaoh. We’d say it was true if perhaps he was accurate within +/- 50mi. 600mi is far beyond that.

      Thanks for your comment!

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