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Web Site Selling "Earthquake Forecasts"

Posted by timothy on from the ha-ha-ha-rumble-rumble-errr dept.

waytoomuchcoffee writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story on geoForecaster.com, a site that offers 'earthquake forecasts,' for a fee. California is looking into claims that the site is practicing geology without a license."

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  1. Is this for real? by revmoo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "practicing geology without a license"????

    Is that a joke or what, I am astounded that there is a law against someone "practicing geology without a license", I'm interested, what does it take to get a "geology license", how much does it cost? What if someone in japan hosted a site predicting earthquakes in california, what then? This whole thing seems rather bizarre to me.

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  2. You need a licence to do geology now? by wackybrit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can understand needing a licence to practice medicine or do brain surgery, because you could kill someone.. or even a licence to be an architect or a lawyer because you could seriously injure or screw people up if you go wrong.

    But doing scientific research into the planet? What is there to screw up there? Measuring some vibrations is hardly life-threatening, even if the quake turns out to be.

    Watch out, they'll make you get a licence to be able to program soon.

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