Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes

Smivs writes with this snippet from an article at the BBC, well worth reading: "Scientists have made an important advance in their efforts to predict earthquakes, the journal Nature says. A team of US researchers has detected stress-induced changes in rocks that occurred hours before two small tremors in California's San Andreas Fault. The observations used sensors lowered down holes drilled into the quake zone. The team says we are a long way from routine tremor forecasts but the latest findings hold out hope that such services might be possible one day."

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stop waiting

[Anonymous Coward]

Impose a local surtax, a buck a drink and a buck a plate of food, goes directly to levee repair and reinforcement, and try not to make it top heavy with handling fees and management and governing the money, get it to the engineers and workers who can do the work. Route around the stoopid feds, they have proven to be at best only half way effective, every single time, no matter the situation. The problem is in that cesspool of failure called DC and how money gets allocated, so try and divorce yourself from DC somehow. I mean really, look at how *bad* DC, the actual district, is governed, it is the only pure fed governed area, and people think they can somehow govern and run the whole nation, or even worse let the UN do it globally?? say WHUT? Work local, then you have your own best interests at heart. NOLA still gets enough tourists, even at a buck a whack it own't be that much more they spend, and it goes to a good cause and I bet most of them would understand the fee and agree with it, so they can come back safely again and again for the good eats and partying. That's the only reason they go there in the first place!

Re:That would make sense

[icegreentea]

Set up this system in Japan? Some of the densest populations in the world living right on active fault lines. They've done what they could with earthquake proofing, but extra warning certainly can't hurt. Given the sheer density in population and buildings there, spending a couple hundred million (or maybe even a billion) could prove to be a wonderful investment.