An end to forecasting
earthquake-prediction programmes that blossomed in the rich countries in the 1960s failed in their objectives and were closed down. However, Japan's programme, spending us $145 million annually lived on. But now a report adopted by the Ministry of Education's Geodesy Council in Japan has admitted that Japanese geophysicists have no special insights denied to others, and that their programme too is a waste of money. The programme may not last much longer ( The Economist, Vol 344, No 8028).
The Earth's crust is composed of giant rocky
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