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If you keep predicting quakes, one day you will be right :)

I've lived in the Bay Area since 1995, and always wondered what would happen if a substantial earthquake struck while the hills are already half mud from sustained winter storms.

Sooner or later, we'll find out.

liquefaction comes to mind - spooky. that leaning tower of pizza/transit center might finally tip over.

The article said that prediction is by a quack site, with no scientific background, who missed both the real Eureka earthquake and then falsely predicted a magnitude 6.5 in Eureka on Dec 25-28.

Yes, take it with a grain of salt

No, don’t “take it with a grain of salt”. Ignore it completely and don’t repeat it. It is complete and utter crap.

Yeah I am not buying the source for this prediction. If this was something from the USGS, then maybe.

But it can never hurt to be prepared. Maybe just to look over your checklists etc.

If the USGS predicted an earthquake, the only thing that would mean is that the USGS site got hacked.

Fixed the link:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/controversial-predicti...

thanks