Note the "time, place, and magnitude". This is for a chief scientist USGS job. I'd heard over the last couple of years that seismologists have to take short term earthquake prediction seriously again....hence, SCEC's earthquake predictability efforts:

"For this team, responsibilities include oversight
on geological, geophysical, and engineering investigations,
including the assessment of hazards from earthquakes; research on
the mechanism and occurrence of them; development of methods for
predicting the time, place and magnitude of earthquakes; and the
evaluation of earthquake potential."

Chris