Can earthquakes actually be predicted?

Shaimaa Khalil and Flora DruryBBC News Not according to Robert Geller, professor emeritus of seismology at the University of Tokyo. When authorities issued a megaquake warning in 2024, after a 7.1 quake struck southern Japan, Prof Geller told the BBC that the warning had "almost nothing to do with science". The advisory was "not a useful piece of information", he said. This, he argued, is because while earthquakes are known to be a "clustered phenomenon", it is &quo