NASA’s DESDynI Spacecraft To Test Earthquake Forecasting

SAN FRANCISCO — No one can predict the exact time and location of an impending earthquake, and efforts to use satellites to detect imminent temblors often have been dismissed by geologists. Nevertheless, scientists say that sophisticated sensors and intricate computer models offer evidence that space-based instruments operating in concert with ground-based networks can help to reveal the intense stress on a fault line that occurs before a serious quake.