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Next week's news: Italy suffers severe shortage of qualified seismologists. Government officials are baffled.

• wisty 15y ago
  On the upside, government officials don't have to explain why a small city that's plagued by earthquakes had such poor building practices that a 6.3 earthquake killed 0.4% of the population.
  • noonespecial 15y ago
    You mean those building code things weren't just a way to make a quick buck by selling exemptions for every building?
  • BasDirks 15y ago
    I've been to L'Aquila twice before the quake. Many buildings consisted (at least in part) of old structures. The city was founded in 1258.
    • davidw 15y ago
      > The city was founded in 1258. For an Italian city, that's fairly recent, actually!