Seism in a sentence as a noun

" [2]This is an active research area and seismologists have a lot of interesting questions to figure out.

I think a careful seismologist would say "we aren't predicting one".The Tohoku earthquake in Japan for example wasn't predicted.

Seism definitions

noun

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

See also: earthquake quake temblor