Can Earthquakes be Predicted

Abstract

Ask a common man about past earthquakes in india. Most people would answer Latur earthquake of 1993 and Bhuj earthquake of 2001 in addition to tsunami devastation of Dec 2004. However if we look at the figure we can see many events have occurred in last two decades. But why we remember only few events. The reason being obvious i.e life loss during these events. From the figure we can easily understand that during during last decades we have witnessed 6 moderate earthquake.