n Without Prejudice - The view from down under

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Hedging its bets : lifestyle

Abstract

Earthquakes in Japan, Christchurch, Chile, Indonesia and other locations around the Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire suggest that somewhere deep underground, massive unseen forces are at work in the year 2011. As the plates shift the consequences can be earth-shattering (an accurate use of that term) but predicting the time or location of the next shock is impossible.