COSTAS SYNOLAKIS, professor of environmental enginering, Viterbi School of Engineering.
This op-ed originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
It is impossible to predict earthquakes with the precision that would have helped the 300 people who died as a result of the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, on April 6, 2009. It is equally difficult, apparently, to predict court decisions.
After a 13-month trial, six scientists and one government official were sentenced to six years in jail Monday for giving authorities information...




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