When is Twitters earthquake prediction supposedly to occur?
EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION FOR L.A. SPAWNS PRAYER, FEAR, MISINFORMATION By D. Scriber l Published: Tuesday, April 13 2010 05:03 A chain e-mail predicting a massive earthquake has triggered fears of impending doom. The letter states: “My buddy’s wife works at the seismology dept. in L.A. and they called everyone in today and said get your kids out of school and stock up on water because there is going to be a major quake within 24 hours.” The e-mail, linked to a strange website that seems to have little in the way of scientific credibility, has spawned a large number of tweets parroting a prediction from the site that a quake of a magnitude between 5.0 and 6.5 will rumble through southern California and Los Angles between April 13 and 17. Experts say earthquakes cannot be predicted. Yes, probabilities of a quake may be drawn depending on a region, but predicting the exact date and magnitude of an earthquake before it happens is so far impossible for science. And keep in mind that earthquakes
