Where the next big earthquakes will occur -- look out Japan

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 14:50 in Earth & Climate

By Becky OskinLiveScienceSALT LAKE CITY — The world's largest earthquakes are also the rarest ones, making it hard to predict these terrible temblors.So seismologists are developing new ways to forecast the biggest earthquakes, like the massive, deadly magnitude-9 and greater quakes that have occurred in Japan, Sumatra, Chile and Alaska."There's an agreement that the prediction of individual earth...    

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