How to predict earthquakes? Most scientists are very skeptical that we will every be able to accuratly predict large earthquakes. Not a single large earthquake has been predicted for California.
Among his insights in this document, Jonathan Plummer claims that a "vile book" written by "the infamous drunkard" Thomas Paine insulted God and was therefore responsible for outbreaks of fever in Philadelphia and an earthquake in South America.; Paine 73 P73d. Oversized box 2.