"Accurate earthquake prediction is impossible, and will be for the foreseeable future", says Robert Geller, a geophysicist at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

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Sornette and Ouillon looked for such a signature in 'rockbursts' in South African mines2. These are subsidence events that are like miniature earthquakes; they mimic what happens when a major geological fault slips.

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You'd think they would have gotten a few clues from those rockbursts....

Just my $.02 worth

• Nature / Science Update (Nov. 2000)