However, we ourselves are able to come close to this type of accuracy. Here's how we do it. The Earth, as just about everyone knows, is covered by plates that move about and grind against each other. A place where this is occurring is called a fault line, as being a faulty place in the surface of the Earth, one would assume. Now, where humans spend a lot of time sticking probes into the Earth, and trying to guess at the tension deep underground and thus the probability of a near term earthquake, they would do better to place the plate personalities into a computer and let the computer tell you where the next bust is going to be.
Humans have a pretty good handle on what the plates are, and where their boundaries are.
Put that into the computer. Humans also have a pretty good handle on the direction the plates are moving in, as they are staring at the results after every earthquake. What they don't know is the degree of pressure, and how to restate this pressure after a quake, which eases the tension in the surrounding rock. The thickness at the edge of the plate, as measured by instruments that gauge the depth of the bedrock, which we deem fairly accurate as done by humans today, and, again, given a directly proportional weight. The frequency of what is termed emergent electrostatic Screeches , a sound which can be detected by sensitive humans, and much more accurately by sensitive instruments.