Earthquake prediction is an oxymoron, if there ever was one. The two plates meeting at the San Andreas Fault are slipping past one another at about the speed at which your fingernails are growing, so there are all kinds of variables in play that determine when things go bump. Eventually, the plate on which I live will arrive at Alaska, so maybe i will get to shake hands with ETSers there. Don't hold your breath, though.

I remember Northridge 1994 quite well. I was sleeping in an upper bunk on San Miguel Island and got an E ticket ride, as well as a delay in travel plans....What is amazing is that, despite a fair amount of infrastructure reinforcing and improvements, the powers that be in Los Angeles haven't got around to identifying and improving the many buildings that are vulnerable to the next large movement. You would think that those of us living in SoCal would be sensitive and responsive to the tectonic hazard.