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Show Earth - Shaking NEWS Predicting Quakes Important strides in cracking crack-ing open the mysteries of earthquakes and predicting them in ordar to save thousands thou-sands of lives have recently been made by geologists. In Japan geologists have found that the ground tilts slightly a few days before an earthquake. A Soviet Union study indicated that a change in the pattern of microearth-quakes microearth-quakes (detected only by sensitive sen-sitive instruments) precedes a quake. Another study suggests that controlled pumping of water into deep wells may be used to produce many small artificial tremors, releasing strain and possibly preventing major earthquakes. The American Geological Institute says progress is being be-ing made in predicting earthquakes, earth-quakes, the greatest of all natural rlif''-" |