PubTalk 4/2011 — "Predictable Earthquakes"
(Public domain.)
Detailed Description
--updating earthquake prediction--fact vs. fiction
by Susan Hough, USGS Seismologist
- Although scientists were optimistic about earthquake prediction in the 1970s, reliable short-term prediction has remained an elusive goal
- What have seismologists learned from recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan?
- Great strides have been made in earthquake forecasting, and to a large extent damaging earthquakes are predictable
- Active fault zones have been identified where damaging earthquakes are inevitable -- possibly within our lifetimes
Details
Date Taken:
Length: 01:24:43
Location Taken: Menlo Park, CA, US
Transcript
Contact wmcesic@usgs.gov for transcript.