Bendandi was born in
Faenza to a family of modest wealth. He only attended school for five years, but at the time of the
solar eclipse of 30 August 1905 became interested in
planetary motion in the
Solar System. He worked for a
watchmaker and an
engraver, and also attended a technical drawing course, enabling him to make precision instruments and drawings to explore and demonstrate his theories. After the
1908 Messina earthquake, he began studying the
tides, and also devised his own form of
seismograph. In October 1914 he predicted in his unpublished notes that an earthquake would take place on 13 January 1915 and, after the
Avezzano earthquake did occur on that day, killing 30,000 people, he devoted much of his time to studies of past earthquakes and
planetary alignments, setting up his own observatory with seismographs. After serving in the
First World War, he joined the Italian Seismology Society in 1920. Over time, he developed his own theories, which he called "seismogenics", about the nature of earthquakes. He believed, unsupported by conventional scientific evidence, that they are caused by planetary alignment in the Solar System – that the Moon, Sun, and other planets have gravitational influence on the movements of the
Earth's crust. In 1931 he published '' 'Un Principio Fondamentale dell'universo' ''. However, he never published any account of his forecasting methods. The only systematic approach to the Bendandi methodology and forecasting was carried out by Pescerelli Lagorio and Adriano Ballabene, who developed a software to test his methods. The principles of Bendandi's predictive method were exposed during European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) in Vienna on 15 April 2015. He resumed publishing forecasts in 1950, and continued making predictions until 1977, but with a break in the late 1960s.'' ==Events of 2011==