Earthquake prediction

Damage after the earthquake in Tahiti in 2010. Photo: UN Photo, Logan Abassi

Can animals warn of earthquakes?

A new study tried to check whether animals can actually sense earthquakes before they happen and whether this can be used to prepare for an emergency ahead of time
Durbar Square in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, following the earthquake of April 25, 2015. From Wikipedia

The earth shakes and the machine learns

Map of Nepal with the major earthquake of April 25, 2015 and the aftershocks that followed. Figure: US Geological Survey

Why did we go down the Richter scale?

Interstate 880 Oakland, California, after the 1989 earthquake. From Wikipedia

Seismology - seconds before the big earthquake / Richard Allen