“The Science and Pseudoscience of Earthquake Prediction”: The Kibbe Science Lecture with Heather Savage

Wednesday, November 29 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

The topic of this lecture is both timely and interdisciplinary. Earthquakes can have devastating impacts on human populations: over 9000 fatalities are attributed to the 2015 Nepal earthquake c. 150,000 to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the greatest suffering is often endured by populations living in poverty. Predicting earthquakes has thus been the primary objective of many researchers, including speaker Heather Savage.

Savage is a renowned expert in the field of seismology and is Distinguished GeoPRISMs Lecturer on the faculty of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. She will speak about earthquakes, seismic risk, the science/pseudoscience of predicting the next big quake, and the implications for society.

This lecture is a collaborative production of the GeoPRISMS distinguished lecturer program, the Kibbe Science Lecture fund, and the Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science.