Here we go, there are 3 days left to see if Dr. K-B’s prediction for a M6.4 quake or greater to strike Southern California. Not sure how I feel about this myself. He has an interesting track record, and reading his paper, it looks like they tried to verify their method by applying it to quakes that had already happened. (A few test cases resulted in false positives though, predicting a quake where no quake happened) However, they still feel they only have a 50% chance of success.
Anyway, some interesting articles for my Southern California breathen:
http://www.dailytrojan.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=709259
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/science/story/10598421p-11517150c.html
http://www.hidesertstar.com/articles/2004/07/30/features/feature2.txt
With the Republican Convention happening this week, and Mother Nature throwing down a hurricane on the east coast, it will be interesting if she tries to wreck havoc by throwing a wrench into the west coast at the same time…