Earthquake forecast: Crimea, California, Hokkaido, Taiwan
Size of economic damage from earthquakes 100.000.000 dollars EVERY DAY A catastrophic earthquake with a magnitude of more than 8 points occurs once a year. Destructive earthquakes: force 7 - 8 points - 17 times a year. The annual number of victims of earthquakes XX century - 33,000 people. TANGSHAN 1976. China. Magnitude 7.8. 242 thousand people died. SPITAK 1988. Armenia. Magnitude 7.2. 25 thousand people died. NEFTEGORSK 1995. Russia Magnitude 7.6. 2040 people died. XXI century - 45,000 people. PORT-AU-PRINCE 2010 Haiti. Magnitude 7. 223 thousand people died. SENDAI 2011 Japan. Magnitude 9. 18 thousand people died. TODAY'S EARTHQUAKE FORECAST LOOKS LIKE THIS There is a 70 percent chance for a magnitude 7 earthquake in the Tokyo area within the next 30 years. Professor Hiroyuki Fujiwara. National Research Institute of Geosciences and Disaster Prevention of Japan. Deterministic predictions of individual earthquakes with sufficient accuracy to allow evacuation programs to be pl...