Earthquake prediction on 6 April 2009, the Abruzzo region of central Italy was rocked by a magnitude M 6.3 earthquake. In the city of L'Aquila and surrounding area around 60,000 buildings collapsed or were seriously damaged, resulting in 308 deaths and 67,500 people left homeless. Around the same time, it was reported that Giampaolo Giuliani had predicted the earthquake, had tried to warn the public, but had been muzzled by the Italian government. Giampaolo Giuliani was a laboratory technician at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. As a hobby he had for some years been monitoring radon using instruments he had designed
April 2015 Nepal earthquake border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mt. Everest. More than 200 people were killed and over 2,500 were injured by this aftershock, and many were left homeless. The earthquake occurred on 25 April 2015 at <time datetime="2015-04-25 11:56">11:56 am</time> NST (06:11:26 UTC) at a depth of approximately (which is considered shallow and therefore more damaging than quakes that originate deeper in the ground), with its epicentre approximately east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal, lasting approximately fifty seconds. The earthquake was initially reported as 7.5 M by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) before it was quickly upgraded to 7.8 M. The