A tongue in cheek article on the Today programme yesterday, followed up with an article on the BBC website, that an amatuer seismologist, Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979, predicted an earthquake to hit Rome on 11 May 2011. Lots of fun poked at Romans taking the day off just in case, and perhaps a bit of a slow news day for the BBC.
But no link seems to have appeared that he seems to have been right, well, at least by the date, as an earthquake hits not Rome, but Lorca in Spain. I know tradgedy has ensued, but even so, not bad for a watch maker!
A map below shows how the Eurasian and African plates run near Lorca.
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