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- From: jimb@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jim Barrera)
- Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Re: does anyone know anything about?
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:19:10 GMT
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- Richard Stead <stead@skadi.CSS.GOV> writes:
- >Close enough. That stretch of fault runs from Cholame to Parkfield and
- >is considered to be the best example of a fully-predictable fault known.
- >It has had regular quakes at about M6.5 every 21+/-3 years for over a century.
- >Trouble is, it was due in 1989+/-3 years. That period ends with the end of
- >1992. There are a lot of seismologists pulling their hair out over this one.
- >They feel let down. [...] Nature just doesn't
- >want to be very cooperative on quake prediction. I think it will happen
- >while all the seismologists are at the AGU meeting in San Francisco
- >(Dec 7-11). [...] (Take that prediction with a :-), BTW).
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- My prediction is that as soon as the people who hold the purse strings
- say "Hey, it's 1993 and it hasn't happened. No more funding!" and
- the seismologists have to pack up most of their equipment, then
- we should be ready for the shaking...
-
- `jimb
-