Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As ...

Researchers are applying artificial intelligence and other techniques in the quest to forecast quakes in time to help people find safety. In September 2017, about two minutes before a magnitude 8.2 ...

In October 2012, Italian courts convicted six scientists and a government official—all members of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks—of manslaughter for allegedly ...

The three words were spelled out in block letters on the evening news, right next to an anchorman’s gelled coif: the big one. A map of Southern California hovered just below, bull’s-eye’d with red, ...

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