The terrible earthquake that just happend in Pakistan is prominently seen on this display of Recent World Earthquake Activity from the US Geological Service. 165 quakes on this map alone (last 7 days). Yow.
Let’s hope that the impact was not too awful [update 10th Oct: sadly the impact was terrible, as feared from the sheer magnitude and location of the quake; see numerous info/news/update sites for more...], and that progress in quake prediction offers some hope, as suggested in this 6th Oct 2005 Wired story:
Researchers in Sweden claim to have developed a new computer model for predicting earthquakes that correctly — retroactively — forecast the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed 275,000 people. Using five years of seismological data from the region including records of 624 quakes, researchers from the Swedish Defense Research Agency, or FOI, studied the enormous stress created by the Indian Plate as it grinds into the Australasian Plate near the island of Sumatra.
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