Predictions

There was an earthquake five minutes ago

based on? they are based on tectonic plate movement.

Tiltmeters use laser technology and GPS equipment to measure the slope of the ground level very accurately.

If there is an abnormal, sudden tilt in the ground, there is a chance that an earthquake is on its way.

because as of now there still no one who knows how to predict them or even be able to sense them other than animals especially dogs.

Well, the Rapture has been PREDICTED several times in history, but there (is due to the idea of the Rapture being based on a false faith) not ever going to be a rapture, and you would be better off spending your time enjoying your life as opposed to wasting it following an ancient desert person's false accusations.

An oracle was supposedly guidance from a god on a course of action. These oracles were usually set-ups. The questioner had to bring gifts for the god, and some cities made an industry out of it. Delphi had Apollo. It also had agents located in major cities who sent advance notice of upcoming questions, which allowed answers to be devised. The oracle also usually had two meanings, so if things went wrong, the excuse was that the questioner had taken the wrong interpretation.

No single change occurs before all earthquakes.

Only to a very limited degree. Using forecast models it is possible to predict the approximate time of day, to within a few hours, when a region is at risk of experiencing tornadoes. However, this only gives a general risk assessment and cannot tell when or where individual tornadoes will occur. On the shorter term, Doppler radar can detect rotation in a storm that could produce a tornado, but even if the potential exists, a tornado might not occur and scientists still aren't sure why. The radar can also detect the circulation of the tornado itself, though it can't tell if it is touching the ground. Once a tornado is detected, it is possible to determine what places may be in the path, though we still can't tell if a tornado will last long enough to hit a given location.

There would be a lot of flat tires.

I can count to Potatoe!

Meteor "showers" happen when the Earth passes through the path of an old or extinct comet. As the comet approaches the Sun each pass, the frozen gasses of the nucleus vaporize, and the gas then carries away some dust and sand into space. But it's not pushed very far; the dust and gas are still orbiting the Sun ALMOST in the same orbit as the comet does.

So after a thousand or more orbits, there gets to be a dusty path all the way around the Sun. When the Earth passes through (or near) the dusty path, we get grains of dust and sand striking the Earth, falling into the atmosphere, and burning up - a "shower" of meteors. The path doesn't change; it only intersects the Earth's orbit at one point, and the Earth hits that point just about the same date each year.

And so we get regular "periodic" meteor "showers".

geologist can predict earthquakes by the help of stress along a fault and energy along the fault

well, they weren't all "predictions" , but rather readings. he didn't predict things every time. he helped people by diagnosing them far better than other doctors could, and he gave "life readings" where he told you who you were in your past lives and what you did. he saved many lives. he gave over 14,000 recorded readings. (he had a stenographer.

Most of the answers to this question have to do with the 2012 Mayan precdiction of the end of the world. There are many, many, many other predictions that take time to find out, but here are a few of the main predictions: December 21 2012 marks the end of the world, ending it with major catastrophes such a earthquakes (among the many) There are going to be floods, bringing the end of the "word of God" for 10 consecutive years A magnetic field shift will happen to the Earth, causing a reverse polarity of the planet The Earth will collide with an asteroid or a comet

In popular culture, the phrase "rubbing mint" has come to mean "wasting time." A group of clever Romanians took the idea of this phrase and ran with it, creating a whole organization, the Romanian Mint Rubbing Association, dedicated to the concept.

According to the Romanian Mint Rubbing Association, mint rubbing is a "time and life management technique" that millions of people around the world participate in. The scent is supposed to give rubbers a sense of calm and peace that allows them to open their mind, relax and get away from the problems of their day. Mint rubbers are supposed to find time each day to sit with ground mint and rub it between their fingers. Others might go further and rub whole-leaf mint on various parts of their body.

1. predict, cannot be done
2. prevent, impossible
3. protect against, build only earthquake resistant structures, have an emergency survival kit, purchase an earthquake insurance policy (but this will usually be very expensive), in the event of an earthquake stay off the phone completely (i.e. leave the still functioning circuits for emergency service use only)

Short term predictions of earthquake behaviour or even earthquake predictions in general have not occured yet. Many even question if earthquakes will ever be able to be predicted. Even the earthquakes that have supposedly been predicted correctly have controversy behind the method

Because he is scared of Chuck Norris

No. Because gravity is extremely reliable, it's easy to calculate far into the future when certain events - such as eclipses - will occur. But that really is not the same thing as "predicting" the future. Astrology is a strong interest of many, and is based at least historically on the motions of the stars and planets. According to adherents, astrology can reveal many things about an individual's personality and can point to some future events depending on one's astrological 'chart'.

Earthquakes, like the weather, are the result of many factors that can interact in any number of different ways. These include the varied movements of the crust and the magma beneath it, the variations in the type of rock, and the separation of plates and faults that cannot be directly observed. Some faults will remain stable for hundreds of years, and the exact amount of strain that builds up is very difficult to accurately measure. The rock movements that result in surface quakes can occur at various depths, complicating the forecast of what movements will follow.

Ruegg and coworkers published a paper in "Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors" (Ruegg JC, 175:78-85, 2009). The team made observations in a range from 1996 to 2002, focusing in the area from Constitución to Concepción, since no major earthquakes occurred in that space since 1835 (described by Darwin). They measured the displacement of the plate (more exactly, the velocity of the movement). The results (at a big glance, since I am not a geologist) showed that coastal regions had a higher velocity compared with regions in the Andes area. Assuming that no major earthquakes released the accumulated force since 1835, a deficit of horizontal displacement of 10 m will have accumulated. To Ruegg and coworkers, this could mean, in a worst case scenario, "that the southern part of the Concepción-Constitución gap has accumulated a slip deficit that is large enough to produce a very large earthquake of about Mw = 8.0-8.5". This February 27, at 3:34 am (Chile's time), an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 in Ritcher scale occurred in a site very close to Cobquecura, located between Concepción and Constitución (see map below). The plates moved 8 m, and since Ruegg and coworkers calculated a 10 m of slip deficit, either the calculations are overestimated or the earthquake should have been even worse.Nonetheless, the prediction of Ruegg and his team is shocking. They were right about the epicenter and magnitude. The final phrase of the abstract is: "… in a worst case scenario, the area already has a potential for an earthquake of magnitude as large as 8-8.5, should it happen in the near future".

Conclusions:

An obvious conclusion for our country, Chile, is the following: scientific observations can assist to make predictions about the most probable sites of a future earthquake, including information about the magnitude. Ideally, a global network across the identified seismic gaps in Chile (one at the north, one near to Valparaiso, one located between Concepción-Constitución and one near to Valdivia, epicenter of the greatest earthquake in the last 200 years) and some other regions , could help to be better prepared for a new earthquake. I don't know of such an approach is being used in other seismic regions on Earth.

Earthquakes can never be predicted because Mother Nature is a surprise to us all

In my opinion I think you should be able to do both. Hope that Helps.

There is no way to predict the value for sure, but you can make an educated guess based on our knowledge of existing technology, and how the new idea would improve that. You have to look closely at what types of things could go wrong... how hard it is to implement, if there are other things that people are already using and they won't really want to change, etc.