Could Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO Be Used to Predict Earthquakes?

Earthquake prediction, societal implications

Keitti Aki

Southern California Earthquake Center, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

• Introduction
• The Gap Theory and Characteristic Earthquakes
  • Use of Probabilities for Earthquake Prediction
  • Physics of Earthquake Prediction
  • Summary and Conclusions
• References