/sci/ - Science & Math

Perfect, no one has posted geology yet.

Prerequisites: two semesters of calculus, physics, and chemistry.

Freshman Year
>Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9849FA1485C8FE8C1F452101DA95FF12

>Annals of the Former World
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=CA85E62CD506951BB81C4303FCF8A42F

>UCMP Berkeley Geologic Time Scale
>http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.php

Sophomore Year
>Mineralogy
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=1CB52A2707C9F3F91B253BE71B91A6BC

>Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6F504394C31D8435C52032782ECE0E72

Junior Year
>Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B15AEE7E828719007B8B84592A2493C7

>Geological Field Techniques
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=455643179F73A9D6FCC9DBBFD67A526E

>Senior Year
Electives in an area of interest (e.g., remote sensing, paleontology, geochemistry, geophysics). By this time, you will have at least a general idea of the subdisciplines that you find interesting.

/sci/,
Is it possible to predict earthquakes? Have any earthquakes been successfully predicted in the past? Should the scientific community pursue earthquake prediction?
Many natural disasters can be seemingly mitigated through forecasts, but earthquakes always seem to fuck people's shit up without warning.
In theory, couldn't we use earthquake forecasts to issue evacuations and save lives? Why hasn't this been done yet?