saulblarf t1_itwg2jd wrote
Reply to comment by other_usernames_gone in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79
>if we understood and had the technology >we might be able to
Sounds like the comment you replied to is exactly correct.
We don’t have the tech or knowledge to meaningfully predict earthquakes and we won’t for a while.
other_usernames_gone t1_itwhl8s wrote
Not really, the comment I replied to seemed to treat it as a given.
But like how we don't need to wait for it to rain to predict it might rain we might not need to wait for an earthquake to start to predict it's likely to happen.
saulblarf t1_itwi74i wrote
We “might not” one day, but currently we cannot, so the 10 second warning is the best we have.
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