People who don’t understand the scientific method can go quickly awry when stories like this hit the mainstream press.Certainly the USGS folks are very leery of anyone predicting when and where earthquakes are going to happen.
They are comfortable with talking about return intervals and magnitudes, but even then, Japan’s scientists got it all wrong for their last big subduction quake.
Let’s just agree that earthquakes will continue to occur, some small, some large and we won’t know the day or hour of their recurring. Thus, they are what I call, “come as you are disasters.” You are either ready or not — here they come.
