Why is it difficult to predict earthquakes?
I’ve read an article from New York Times’ science section. There was a way of prediction of earthquakes contains measuring a level of radon gas releasing from rocks and a few examples of situations where the method was confirmed or not. Quakes can be set off by human activity such as pojects connected with digging the ground too deep and injecting water there or with reservoirs. And they said that, unfortunately, prediction of earthquakes damaging buildings and even whole cities, leading to deaths of many people becomes a frustrating and chancy activity because of a gap in knowledge about earthquakes.
This topic was interesting for me to read because I like science and nature and I am really interested in such phenomenon as earthquake. I know that scientists from all over the world think how they can make prediction of underground quakes more accurate and opportune. If you ask me whether I have a personal interst in the theme, I will say that everybody has it. Earthquake can take place in any point of Earth and all humanity should be interested in their own security.
("Earthquakes’ Many Mysteries Stymie Efforts to Predict Them" New York Times 14 April 2009)
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