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Maxwell's equations and earthquakes
Feb 10, 2004
Predicting earthquakes is one of the biggest
challenges in modern earth science. Intermediate
and long-term predictions on
timescales of between 1 and 100 years are
generally based on past records of seismic
activity. Short-term earthquake prediction,
on the other hand, is more deterministic
and relies on the detection of precursory
phenomena.
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