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Speaking to Express.co.uk, Bill McGuire, professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London (UCL), said he would not be surprised if a huge quake struck the US state this year as it has been a while . An estimated 234 earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample. The latest quake was a magnitude 4.0 earthquake that was reported yesterday at 10.04am local time by the U
An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it s the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science, seismologists still can t predict when the Big One will hit. Predicting the Unpredictable is the first book to explain why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science and pseudoscience of earthquake prediction. Susan Hough traces the continuing quest by seismologists to forecast the time, location, and magnitude of future quakes a quest fraught with controversies, spectacular failures, and occasional apparent successes. She brings readers into the laboratory and out into the field with the pioneers who have sought to develop reliable methods based on observable phenomena such as small earthquake patterns and electromagnetic signals. Hough describes attempts