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But a government commission tasked with monitoring earthquake risk reassured the public that the shaking was “normal,” and a bigger event was unlikely.
Sadly, those tremors turned out to be foreshocks— smaller earthquakes that sometimes precede a serious event.
In light of the tragedy, that government official and six scientists were accused of giving, quote, “inexact, incomplete, and contradictory information” that downplayed the true risks.
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