Saturday, 05 May 2012 11:51
‘As evinced by our seismologists’ abject inability to predict earthquakes, it’s clear this is one branch of geophysics that continues to dawdle in an embryonic state.
Let’s face it: Despite all our collective intellectual acumen, technological prowess, and vast scientific knowledge, it’s about as easy to accurately predict the time and place of the next shaker as it is to pick the winner of the national lottery.
Theories such as Plate Tectonics only emerged in the 1960s, and even today, little is known about the true triggers of earthquakes below the earth’s crust.’