Earthquakes can't be predicted but NASA is going to try it anyway

For decades this has been the holy grail in seismology:

THE USGS IN PASADENA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE EARTHQUAKE WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING LOS ANGELES, ORANGE, VENTURA, SAN BERNARDINO, RIVERSIDE, AND SAN DIEGO COUNTIES

THERE ARE STRONG INDICATIONS FROM GEOPHYSICAL READINGS THAT A LARGE EARTHQUAKE EXCEEDING MAGNITUDE 7 WILL OCCUR ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 72 HOURS.

ALL PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE STRONG TO DAMAGING SHAKING INCLUDE...
  LOS ANGELES...             SAN BERNARDINO...           ANAHEIM...
  PALM SPRINGS...   GREAT BEAR...    RIVERSIDE...
  VENTURA...          

The above is not real. It isn't possible. Despite decades of research (and about the same for irritants from practitioners of pseudoscience) no one has come any closer to predicting earthquakes with any reliability or precision. The 1970s were the heyday of earthquake prediction. The science has not really advanced since then, and proposed methods do not appear to work. The best we can get are Early Warning (which need the earthquake to be in progress---but are very effective) and statistical forecasts, which have uncertainty and flaws.

NASA is going to try anyway.