Not so many years ago, I gave a presentation at UC-Berkeley on the idea of using our adaptive artificial intelligence tools for predicting earthquakes and reducing the time-for-detection to public notice to some un-defined minima.
We were able to detect and characterize otherwise-ignored precursors in the geo-waveforms but the work was considered 'fairly serious' and mostly without interest bolstering the 'slightly prepared' paradigm you mention regarding earthquakes and fires.
Climate change is real; earthquakes are probabilistic.
Not so many years ago, I gave a presentation at UC-Berkeley on the idea of using our adaptive artificial intelligence tools for predicting earthquakes and reducing the time-for-detection to public notice to some un-defined minima.
We were able to detect and characterize otherwise-ignored precursors in the geo-waveforms but the work was considered 'fairly serious' and mostly without interest bolstering the 'slightly prepared' paradigm you mention regarding earthquakes and fires.
Climate change is real; earthquakes are probabilistic.