Slow Earthquakes in Cascadia are Predictable

Thursday, July 2, 2020 - 08:50 in Earth & Climate

If there is one word you are not supposed to use when discussing serious earthquake science, it is “predict.” Seismologists cannot predict earthquakes; instead they calculate how likely major earthquakes are to occur along a certain fault over a given period of time. It is a matter of debate among seismologists whether the process that […]

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