For those of you who live in California, how do you feel about this? Are you prepared or ready for it?
Last December a major earthquake rocked the central California town of Paso Robles (search), killing two women and destroying or damaging 40 buildings. Seismologists at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics (search) saw it coming.
"In the fall, they issued the prediction and the magnitude 6.5 earthquake, a little above their threshold of 6.4, struck in December," said John Vidale, professor of geophysics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
It was the second accurate prediction for the team at UCLA. They also predicted a quake with magnitude 8.1 in Japan last September
Now the group has predicted that another big quake ? a magnitude 6.4 or stronger ? will hit southern California, near San Bernardino, before.... ( read more )
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