http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG87v9-ROfw
March 9, 2011 warning ... you can ping the other deniers and have at it - for my part I’m skeptical but willing to entertain new ideas and concepts ... ;-)
I am often asked about prediction. Since my first attachment to seismology, I have had a horror of predictions and of predictors. Journalists and the general public rush to any suggestion of earthquake prediction like hogs toward a full trough. It is a parallel to the obsession with a cure for cancer, or with the question of life on other worlds. There is nothing wrong with aiming toward prediction, if that is done with common sense, proper use of correct information, and an understanding of the inherent difficulties. Otherwise, the subject provides a happy hunting ground for amateurs, cranks, and outright publicity seeking fakers. The vaporings of such people are from time to time seized upon by the news media, who then encroach on the time of men who are occupied in serious research.
-Charles Richter