It has been a hundred years since the last big one in California, the 1906 San Francisco earth quake, which helped give (1) to modem earthquake science. A century later, we have a highly successful (2) , called plate tectonics, that explains why 1906-type earthquakes happen--along with why continents drift, mountains rise, and volcanoes (3) the Pacific Rim. Plate tectonics may be one of the (4) triumphs of the human mind, geology’s (5) to biology’s theory of evolution. And yet scientists still can’t say when an earthquake will happen. They can’t even come (6) .
What scientists can do right now is make good maps of fault zones and (7) out which ones are probably due (8) a rupture. And they can make forecasts. A forecast might say that, over a certain number of years, there is a certain (9) of a certain magnitude earthquake in a (10) spot. And that you should fix your house to its
A. range
B. neighbor
C. line
D. border
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