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Are Earthquakes Predictable? USGS Scientist Annemarie Baltay on ShakeAlert and What We Don’t Know
Nov 11, 2026
What happens when your phone buzzes seconds before an earthquake, and why can’t scientists predict one in the first place? In this episode of “Bay Area Innovators,” Steve Ispas talks with Annemarie Baltay, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a member of the team behind ShakeAlert, ...
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“Bay Area Innovators” tackles the compelling, life-changing, fearless, and compassionate stories from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, providing a platform for discussion and discovery. We bring to our program the legends, the innovators, and the hardworking people who are shaping the future of the Bay Area in a positive way by finding solutions and improving people’s lives.
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Steve Ispas is an investigative journalist with The Epoch Times and the host of Epoch TV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program. Steve grew up in Eastern Europe, and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 35 years. He worked in the tech industry for 15 years at LSI Logic and Rambus, and has been with The Epoch Times in various positions since 2003. His recent coverage includes an in-depth exclusive investigation of the secret Chinese biolab discovered in Reedley, Calif., in 2022.