[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] nice article on earthquake hazard foreasting

[Seth Stein]

Richard Kerr has a nice article in the May 20 issue of Science (v 232, p912)

"Seismic Crystal Ball Proving Mostly Cloudy Around the World:
Failing at quake prediction, seismologists tried making fuzzier forecasts,
but Japan’s  megaquake is only the latest reminder of the method’s
shortcomings"

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6032/912.full


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