They fired the Alameda County geologist after he accurately predicted
the Loma Prieta quake. Like I said yesterday quakes have a propensity
to occur around high tides because of the gravitational pull. This was
researched by Russian scientists. The only problem is at this time we
have no way of knowing which fault is ready to pop.
On 08/25/2014 10:58 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Amazing, I can't believe the trial actually went ahead. I remember
reading about it when the charges were first brought and felt like
banging my head against a wall. I thought it must be some dumb media
witch hunt but it seems they persisted. They were obviously damned
whatever they said.
There was an idea touted about earthquake prediction a few years back
that looked good, it looked back over many years and claimed to find a
correlation between quakes on any faultline and that they moved along
the line quite predictably. They had some evidence from past quakes
that this was the case and even used the data to predict one. But only
one, it turned out to be another predictive false alarm caused by our
old friend statistical clustering.
It is indeed especially tough to be a seismologist!
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