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Posted by John Vidale on April 15, 2004 at 14:17:06:

Todd,

Most of the ways the prediction could come true would result in little damage and few casualties. The M7.5 Landers quake in 1992 and the M7.2 Hector Mines quake in 1999 both were NOT catastrophic, despite being much larger than the M6.4 threshold of the prediction.

John