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Venezuela earthquakes highlight the limits of early warning systems

By Ravindra Jayaratne, Reader in Coastal Engineering, University of East London

Earthquakes still arrive without warning. That is the hard truth scientists have been forced to accept, despite a decade of advances in artificial intelligence, satellite monitoring and dense seismic networks.

We are getting better at detecting earthquakes once they start. We are now better at estimating the damage they may cause. But we still can’t predict the exact time, place and size of a future earthquake.

That…

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