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WhiteDawntoday at 6:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

I hope in my lifetime we discover a way to predict earthquakes better, the danger to life from them would be significantly less if there was sufficient notification.

We can alert for storms, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, and even somewhat extraterrestrial disasters like asteroids.

The earth itself must move in predictable patterns similar to the weather, and I'm sure there is decades of research around this I'll never even approach to understanding. Just surprising to have such a big knowledge gap that affects humanity year round


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threatrippertoday at 6:27 PM

I fear that we can only predict them if we deliberately trigger them to release the energy.

mohamedkoubaatoday at 6:16 PM

Even if it's predictable the opaqueness of the earth crust makes predictive models hard

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