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Article: CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION EVALUATION COUNCIL KEEPS EYE ON EARTHQUAKE PREDICTIONS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 23 -- The California Department of Conservation issued the following press release:
Reaching into a desk drawer, Dr. John Parrish pulls out a stack of paper. Each sheet is California's potential salvation; more likely, it is a figment of someone's imagination and a waste of time.
Each one is an earthquake prediction. Some are written by folks with serious scientific chops. Those discuss methodology, probability, algorithms and historic trends. Others might as well be written in Crayon. Those discuss the strange behavior of household pets, intuition, Aunt Agatha's aching bunions, or other mysterious signs and portents that scientists simply don't understand.
"We're ...