le="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>le="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang=EN-US>///le="FONT-SIZE: 14pt" lang=EN-US>There is even now an opinion that earthquakes could be inherently unpredictable. The argument is that past failures and recent theories suggest fundamental obstacles to prediction. Here, the authors demonstrate that an exponential law for earthquake predictions has been discovered and this law has wide applicability for the predictions of catastrophe including earthquakes, landslides and avalanches.le="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt" lang=EN-US>oft-com:office:office" />