Staff writer
In a country with frequent and sometimes devastating earthquakes, it is natural for lay people to want to know when and where the next one is going to hit.
Unfortunately, that desire is probably crying for the moon, according to Robert Geller, an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Tokyo.
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