Forecasting the Catastrophe: An Analysis of When and Where the Next Great Earthquake on the West Coast Will Strike

by David Nabhan

It's been called the "Holy Grail of seismology," intimating that much like the sought after chalice, a solution will never be found. Yet as history has demonstrated countless times, what is declared as indisputably impossible many times turns out to be just dead wrong. At this writing, there are hundreds of studies being conducted, all over the world, investigating dozens of potentially useful seismic precursors. "Forecasting the Catastrophe" presents a different view than what many people think they know about earthquake prediction, and gives a plausible, compelling argument for how a rudimentary seismic advisory system for the US could be implemented-today, not tomorrow. Here is a scientific detective story with roots that go back to the dawn of history, and that range from Russia and China to Mesoamerica and back to the US and Canadian west coasts. Tens of millions have heard the message within this book in the media. It's not the latest sound byte, though; it's a call to action. To read or listen to many of the hundreds of media interviews with the author go to www.earthquakepredictors.com

146 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2010

About the author

David Nabhan--"Earthquake Prediction: Dawn of the New Seismology," (Skyhorse Publishing, June 2017)-- is a science writer who has been featured on the air or in print on a remarkable number of news fonts in the US and elsewhere--television, radio, and newspapers. The airtime and/or column space was garnered on some of the most recognized media venues in existence many, many hundreds of times: CBS News, Popular Science, Inside Edition, RT Television, London Daily Mail, Thom Hartmann Show, UK's Naked Scientists, Howard Stern Show, Drudge Report, MSNBC/Sirius Joe Madison , Los Angeles Daily News, San Francisco Examiner, etc. He is the author of four books concerning earthquakes, peer-reviewed papers on the subject, and many, many scores of newspaper and magazine op-eds regarding earthquakes, hydraulic fracking, dams and mining, climate issues and other important topics published on three continents and in two languages. Mr. Nabhan also is a science fiction writer, with two additional books in that genre ("Pilots of Borealis," Skyhorse Publishing/Talos Press, August, 2015). Many dozens of his interviews, articles, and op-eds can be accessed at www.earthquakepredictors.com