Scientists say it is possible to use data to estimate the probability of earthquakes in areas where they are known to occur, but no one has been able to make a credible prediction so far.
states that earthquakes have never been predicted before. Their website says,"Neither the USGS nor any other scientists have ever predicted a major earthquake. We do not know how, and we do not expect to know how any time in the foreseeable future. USGS scientists can only calculate the probability that a significant earthquake will occur in a specific area within a certain number of years.
They state that"earthquakes have nothing to do with clouds, bodily aches and pains, or slugs" and rely only on"scientific evidence." Now we turn to the gravitational forces of the planets. The force is proportional to the mass of the first body times the mass of the second body divided by the square of the distance between them. The earth's mass is a constant and so we can easily compute the relative gravitational force of the other planets by knowing their masses and distances from earth. Jupiter, at its closest approach, has almost 1% of the moon's gravitational attraction, Venus comes in next at 0.
"Turkey's a known earthquake zone. We've known about these faults, we know earthquakes this size are possible," Hough"One of my colleagues told me years ago that we can predict earthquakes to the extent that we need to," she told
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