Quake prediction has been a graveyard of ideas.
Everything that looks promising ends up flat on its face.
The USGS has largely abandoned the whole idea of actual quake forecasts for specific times for hazard assessment.
I'm generally on the side of the debate that believes there will NEVER be actual useful specific warnings for earthquakes.
Human flight has been a graveyard of ideas.
Everything that looks promising ends up flat on its face.
I'm generally on the side of the debate that believes there will NEVER be actual useful means of flying for humans.
I guess you don't like Stan Deyo either--even though he successfully predicted the Sumatran Tsunami and many since then.
He has more false positives than he probably would wish. But he seems to be on to something about a great temperature differential on opposing sides of a big plate fault being predictive of a significantly increased likelihood of a big quake within several days of such.
http://standeyo.com/Reports/06_EQ.warning/EQ.warning.html