1. You cannot predict an earth quake.
2. You cannot predict a Tsunami caused by an earth quake, due to #1.
What the scientists probably meant was that you cannot do anything than moving away anyway, so you can as well 'take a glass of vine'.
This is not cynical, but common sense.
Anyone wo settles in a geologically active area has to live with the possibility of earth quakes.
There is no one to blame but life (and death) as such.
OT regarding Berlusconi:
It sure did not help that Mr. Berlusconi stopped the funding for the seismic research, but even then the scientists would not have been able to predict this. But.
1. At the time of the earthquake Mr. B. was head of the state.
2. A few years before he had stopped funding all kinds of scientific state research to make up for the economical downfall, including the rescue of classic monuments in Rome, and seismic activity studies. Sure he does not want to make this public.
3. Almost all bigger media in Italy belong to Mr. Berlusconi.
4. One of the judges related to those court decisions may have been invited personally, to Mr. B.'s 'Bunga-Bunga' parties.
'Democracy' at work.
Make of that what you want.
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