1.   Coles gained wide publicity after predicting the earthquake.

2.   The Santa Barbara seismic research team has had some success in predicting earthquakes.

3.   Someday soon it may actually become possible to predict earthquakes with accuracy.

4.   But officials also blamed the closure of many seismological stations, intended to try to predict earthquakes, because of budget cuts.

5.   Impossible though it is to predict individual earthquakes, seismologists have become much better at identifying the locations most at risk.

6.   In addition, many scientists worry that the move could disrupt their efforts to monitor and predict earthquakes.

7.   In the hills and beneath bridges, they could check for stress and strain, helping predict earthquakes.

8.   On Saturday, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported that Japan would be unable to predict earthquakes adequately.

9.   So scientists reasoned that if the same pattern occurred in Tokai, an earthquake could be predicted.

10.   Suppose you predicted an earthquake and everybody came.