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QuakeFinder: Is It Possible To Reliably Predict Earthquakes?
massivepanic writes "Unlike most natural disasters, earthquakes strike without warning. Between large quakes and resulting tsunamis, millions of lives have been lost because science has been unable to provide accurate, useful earthquake predictions. Stellar Solutions' QuakeFinder Division hopes it can develop the tools to dramatically reduce this loss of life. Its network of over 100 sophisticated sensor stations has detected patterns of electromagnetic pulses several days before a number of different earthquakes, moving the possibility of earthquake prediction closer to reality."
Oh, so this article submission is NOT a repeat from 1997?
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
The Italian government is convinced you can.
I wouldn't ever claim to be able to accurately predict earthquakes even if I knew I could. To do so is to also claim responsibility.
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
Just use Twitter!
You will find some animals flee before earthquakes, some act peculiar, as in, will be afraid or seemingly barking for hours before they hit.
No you won't. You will find the opposite: Several have experiments have found no correlation between animal behavior and upcoming earthquakes. No experiments have found a correlation. There is a good summary here: Earthquake prediction - Animal behavior.
This just an old wives tale based on a few anecdotes. There is no evidence that animals can predict earthquakes. How could they? Unless you believe that animals have some ESP that science isn't aware of, they would have to be relying on some sort of infra-sound or ultra-sound, or maybe a magnetic disturbance. If that was true, we would be able to detect the signal directly, and cut the animals out of the loop. But no one has found any reliable signal.
ENOUGH WITH THIS BULLSHIT! Even though *i dissent with the sentence* i must clarify that they have been charged for clearly stating that the situation was OK, that people should stay at home and that people should just ignore those pesky FORESHOCKS that lasted for MONTHS with INCREASING magnitude. I was fucking THERE at the time (well... not exactly there as i knew that we were in for quite a ride). Enough with this disinformation.