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theweaselkingOregon man panics tens of thousands of people by issuing false tsunami warning from his private consulting company (1 employee - him) to Indian government.
An Indian government minister calls the warning "hogwash." He's blaming the consulting company for a panic that sent tens of thousands of people fleeing to higher ground.
Larry Park, who runs the company out of his home near Portland, stands by his warning. He still predicts there's "a good chance" of another quake coming, but says "a few days' window" until then.
Geologists in Oregon said they had not heard of Park or of his research, and are questioning its validity.
Park says he bases his research partly on what he describes as a huge supply of "ether" of the universe that he believes permeates everything and creates energy waves that aren't accounted for by current theories of physics.
After the warning was received, tens of thousands of people in southern India made a desperate run for higher ground. Police describe refugees fleeing relief camps, and jostling to get into trucks and other vehicles.
An Indian government minister calls the warning "hogwash." He's blaming the consulting company for a panic that sent tens of thousands of people fleeing to higher ground.
Larry Park, who runs the company out of his home near Portland, stands by his warning. He still predicts there's "a good chance" of another quake coming, but says "a few days' window" until then.
Geologists in Oregon said they had not heard of Park or of his research, and are questioning its validity.
Park says he bases his research partly on what he describes as a huge supply of "ether" of the universe that he believes permeates everything and creates energy waves that aren't accounted for by current theories of physics.
After the warning was received, tens of thousands of people in southern India made a desperate run for higher ground. Police describe refugees fleeing relief camps, and jostling to get into trucks and other vehicles.
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Date: 2004-12-31 02:21 pm (UTC)Unless you post-dated your posts and haven't woken up yet.
In which case, good form. Way to double your LJ productivity.
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Date: 2004-12-31 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-31 06:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-31 05:41 pm (UTC)You know that well-worn observation that freedom of speech doesn't mean you can yell "fire" in a crowded theater if there's no fire?
Yeah.
I know some good comes from Oregon, after all Erik's from there, but sometimes I think we ought to take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.