http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110526/sc_livescience/seismologiststriedformanslaughterfornotpredictingearthquakeEarthquake prediction can be a grave, and faulty science, and in the case of Italian seismologists who are being tried for the manslaughter of the people who died in the 2009 L'Aquila quake, it can have legal consequences.
The group of seven, including six seismologists and a government official, reportedly didn't alert the public ahead of time of the risk of the L'Aquila earthquake, which occurred on April 6 of that year, killing around 300 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
But most scientists would agree it's not their fault they couldn't predict the wrath of Mother Nature.
"We're not able to predict earthquakes very well at all," John Vidale, a Washington State seismologist and professor at the University of Washington, told LiveScience.
Even though advances have been made, the day scientists are able to forecast earthquakes is still "far away," Dimitar Ouzounov, a professor of earth sciences at Chapman University in California, said this month regarding the prediction of the March 11 earthquake in Japan.
well they have no one but themselves to blame....we have been told over and over that scientist can predict with complete accuracy what the carbon level will be a hundred years from now so why can they not predict earthquakes too? we have put man over God, so now we need to hold men accountable. Scientists can no longer blame 'acts of God' since they have insisted so that they have proven Him to be a myth.
They have instituted scientists as God and Climate Change as the new religion...have fun with that, Progressives...
(on a side note, did you see where Al Gore is blaming Climate Change for the tornados in the Midwest? how is that any different from some crackpot religious guy claiming God made them to punish Americans for electing Obama?)
