Gian Michele Calvi, an expert in earthquake engineering who is one of the indicted seven, says the commission recognised that L'Aquila is in a highly seismic zone, and that a powerful earthquake could therefore happen at any time.

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Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.

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