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Freakonomics Radio

28. Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011

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We talk to a U.S. Geological Survey physicist about the science -- and folly -- of predicting earthquakes. There are lots of known knowns; and, fortunately, not too many unknown unknowns. But it's the known unknowns -- the timing of the next Big One -- that are the most dangerous.

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