Is there anyway to predict earthquakes?
Often, especially in California, foreshocks—quakes that lead up to the biggest earthquake of all—are only about 18 percent effective in predicting larger earthquakes. The best thing to predict quakes is using the “pattern of year” approach. For instance, in X town, there was a quake in 1917, 1941, 1952, 1969, 1982, 1999. Then you average the years and you try to get the average year pattern of when earthquakes occur. (For instance, there may be an earthquake roughly every 12 years, or roughly every 19 years, etc.). That’s all but I hope there are better earthquake prediction methods soon before more lives are lost.
Monitoring increase in VLF very low frequency 0-4 Hz by electronic device, special human ear or animals, but not all quakes release this signal and so not very accurate sometimes. Chinese also use a method to observe the cloud from satelite map to predict quakes under ground, but it’s still little understood. Increase in pressure of jet streams at geysers by more whistles. Very accurate but not all areas have geysers. UCLA applies statistic data to predict. Others plan to use satelite to pickup ground signals of movement to alert the quake. P-wave runs before main shock wave at speed of 8-10 miles per second. Home device of quake alarm is like smoke detector can signal the ELF P-wave, but sometimes it makes false alarm.
