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...hits, oughtn't we have some way of predicting it? Hurricanes, blizzards, even volcanoes can be forecast well before their arrival, after all, allowing governments and people to make lifesaving preparations. Earthquakes, however, are stealth disasters, geological phenomena largely undetectable until just seconds before they occur. What scientists have long wanted to know is why quakes are so sneaky and what, if anything, can be done to read their warning signs better...
...things generally about earthquakes," says Blanpied. "We look at faults and patterns of quakes over many years and say where on the landscape they're likeliest to occur next. This forecasting is usually in the long term." Indeed, scientists predicted as recently as 2008 that a fault zone on the south side of Haiti's island of Hispaniola posed a "major seismic hazard...
...problem is, long-term forecasting does not do much to keep people from putting themselves in harm's way. If it did, nobody would live in California or Mexico City or parts of Japan. What's needed is short-term forecasting on the order of weeks, days or hours. And this has stymied scientists again and again. (See the top 10 news stories...
...thought we outplayed them in the first period,” Donato said. “I wasn’t so concerned with the shot total…They threw a lot of pucks, a lot of long shots, but I think we’re well aware that the scoreboard is different from the shot [count...
Just 36 seconds into the second frame, Malcolm gave the puck to defenseman Tom Dignard, who found Sean Backman streaking up the left side of the ice. Backman skated into the Harvard zone and put a long slapshot past junior Crimson goalie Ryan Carroll for the 1-0 lead...