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2023-10-26 02:06:06 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DA5C0E33A45F1A44131B8CA2B8D49B025B93E5A7A99C75A07A5F63BB79883374
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These claims by this user have been fact-checked as false by geophysicists many times over the last decade: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-earthquake-prediction-262451352553 https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1154893886/earthquake-prediction-turkey-usgs https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-predict-an-earthquake/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/28/massive-california-earthquake-predicted-for-today/ https://slate.com/technology/2015/05/planetary-alignment-no-it-won-t-cause-an-earthquake.html https://gizmodo.com/will-a-planetary-alignment-cause-a-9-8-earthquake-this-1706933982 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/01/man-s-huge-quake-prediction-is-fearmongering-geonet.html No earthquake predictions/forecasts like these have ever been found to be effective: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00685-y https://pnsn.org/outreach/faq/earthquake-prediction https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/predicting-next-big-earthquake https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/national-earthquake-prediction-evaluation-council-nepec https://cseptesting.org/
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