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# Spain earthquake: Rome earthquake rumour sparks mass exodus
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## As the earthquake hit Spain, one in five residents of Rome stayed off work
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and children were kept out of school over earthquake fears following a 1915
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prediction by seismologist Raffaele Bendandi that "the big one" would strike
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on May 11, 2011.
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![Shops with signs reading 'Closed for serious family reasons'][1]
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Shops with signs reading 'Closed for serious family reasons' in the Chinatown
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district in Rome Photo: REUTERS
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[![Barney Henderson][2]][3]
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By [Barney Henderson][4] 11:41PM BST 11 May 2011
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Thousands of Romans fled the city and shops were shuttered over quake fears,
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despite officials insisting they cannot be predicted and special programmes
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running on Italian state TV calling for calm.
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"I'm going to tell the boss I've got a medical appointment and take the day
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off," said barman Fabio Mengarelli. "If I have to die, I want to die with my
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wife and kids, and masses of people will do the same as me."
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Over 20 tremors did strike Italy on Wednesday, but it was in Spain, around 800
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miles to the west, that a devastating quake struck.
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Bendandi is said to have predicted several earthquakes which hit Italy during
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the last hundred years before his death in 1979 and the panic on Wednesday was
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fanned by Facebook, Twitter and text messages.
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Bendandi believed movement of plates and therefore earthquakes were the result
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of the combined movements of the planets, the moon and the sun and perfectly
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predictable.
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## Related Articles
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* [Eight dead as earthquake hits southern Spain][5]
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11 May 2011
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* [Europe's deadliest earthquakes][6]
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12 May 2011
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* [Spain mourns earthquake victims][7]
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13 May 2011
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In 1923 he predicted a quake would hit central Italy on January 2 the
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following year - he was wrong by two days.
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