India, July 14 -- A new equation developed by researchers brings back focus on earthquake prediction

A new way to improve the prediction of earthquakes has been developed by researchers, according to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth July 13, 2020.

Earthquakes are difficult to predict , making it challenging to save lives. Two of the worst natural disasters in the past 30 years were earthquakes . The first was the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed 220,000 people and the second was the Haiti earthquake in 2010 in which 159,000 people lost their lives .

Earthquakes killed over 923,000 people worldwide in the 30 years between 1990 and 2019, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS)....