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An oral or written account of previous earthquake activity and location in, near or on the meeting of tectonic or lithospheric plates may serve to predict the location of a future earthquake.
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Earthquake prediction is currently not possible, as such, seismologists will attempt to quantify the risk posed by a particular fault zone rather than state exactly when an earthquake will occur. For more information, please see the related question.
predict, cannot be doneprevent, impossibleprotect against, build only earthquake resistant structures, have an emergency survival kit, purchase an earthquake insurance policy (but this will usually be very expensive), in the event of an earthquake stay off the phone completely (i.e. leave the still functioning circuits for emergency service use only)