Sentence examples for forecasting earthquakes from inspiring English sources

Most seismologists dismiss it as bogus and have long concluded that forecasting earthquakes is impossible.

Mr. Panetta compared the difficulty of making intelligence judgments to forecasting earthquakes: even mapping the fault lines cannot give you precise information about the next earthquake.

It is not surprising that the ETAS model shows better performance in forecasting earthquakes than the Poisson model, as shown by Helmstetter et al. (2006), Console et al. (2007, 2010), Murru et al. (2009), and Marzocchi and Lombardi (2009).

The EEPAS model has previously been applied to a wider Japan region, including seismically active offshore zones, in forecasting earthquakes of magnitude M ̮ 6.75, using parameters estimated from the New Zealand earthquake catalogue, and then fitted to the wider Japan region at M > 6.25 (Rhoades and Evison, 2005).

Using the Advanced National Seismic System catalog of Californian earthquakes over the period 1984 2004, these authors found that the optimal mixture model for forecasting earthquakes with M ≥ 5.0 was a convex linear combination of 0.42 part the EEPAS model and 0.58 part the STEP model.

Mr. Silver illustrates his dos and don'ts through a series of interesting essays that examine how predictions are made in fields including chess, baseball, weather forecasting, earthquake analysis and politics.

Therefore, like weather forecasting, earthquake forecasting should be considered on a statistical basis (Rundle et al., 2003).

Nowhere else in the world is able to forecast earthquakes in this way.

The British news media predicted mugging epidemics and forecast earthquakes in stable regions.

THE idea that animals can forecast earthquakes is not a new one: the notion occurred to the Romans.

Seismologists may not be able to forecast earthquakes precisely but it would be deplorable if they were to resign themselves to modelling just the regular, gradual movements of tectonic plates.