Thanks by your e-mail. I didnt know about this notice.
The behaviour of the rumor it has a large history in Lima. The crisis has
always generated different behaviours in Lima from the Colony age.
It had a descisive role in the vote by Fujimori and during the
figth with the terrorism . During the age of crisis the metaphor increase
his level of sugestion.
Cesar Gayoso
Policy Analyst
Http://tpsipol.home-page.org
Lima-Peru
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Jeremiah Spence wrote:
> E-Mail Earthquake Rumor Scares Hundreds in Peru
>
> AP, 25-MAY-99
>
> LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Hundreds of people slept in the streets of the Peruvian
> capital Tuesday, fearing their houses might collapse after computer messages
> warned of a massive earthquake.
>
> People slept wrapped in blankets along with jugs of water and food in front
> of their mud-brick homes in the poor Lima districts of Rimac, Barrios Altos,
> Surquillo and La Victoria. The rumor began when an undetermined number of
> computers received e-mail message saying that authorities in Japan expected
> a magnitude 8 earthquake to strike Lima between 2 and 3 a.m. Tuesday.
>
> Local radio then relayed the faulty information.
>
> The director of Peru's Geophysical Institute, Ronald Woodman, said
> scientists cannot predict earthquakes. In a radio address, he asked Lima's
> residents to ignore the message.
>
> "We have tried to find out where the message came from but so far we have
> not succeeded," Woodman said.
>
> Firefighters reported treating seven cases of hypertension attributed to the
> rumor and news stations received hundreds of telephone calls asking about
> the earthquake rumor.
>
> In Peru's worst earthquake-related disaster, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in
> 1970 killed 70,000 people in the central highlands and coast.
>
>
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