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Why can we not predict earthquakes?
Author(s) -
Matthews Robert
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00934.x
Subject(s) - natural disaster , history , seismology , natural (archaeology) , remotely triggered earthquakes , computer science , geology , geography , meteorology , earthquake swarm , archaeology , induced seismicity
Hundreds of people have been killed since the start of the year as a result of earthquakes. With all the data we have on these natural disasters, why can we not reliably predict their occurrence?