And to think that we pay people for this "brilliant" bull$#!t !!!
I don't know about that. At one spot on the [SA]fault, large quakes were pretty regular, on the order of every twenty years.
Monitoring stations were set up to pinpoint the exact location for taking core samples after the next large quake. One didn't happen for about twenty-nine years.
Oh, and core samples revealed the slipping was occurring along a talc mineral deposit.