28. Why Cant We Predict Earthquakes?

Published: March 30, 2011, 5:13 p.m.

b"We talk to a U.S. Geological Survey physicist about the science -- and folly -- of predicting earthquakes. There are lots of known knowns; and, fortunately, not too many unknown unknowns. But it's the known unknowns -- the timing of the next Big One -- that are the most dangerous."