Once thought to be unpredictable and random 'acts of God', earthquakes are now revealed in a new light due to a trail of clues from ancient ruins in Crete to the San Andreas Fault. Could it be possible that earthquakes spread out from each other like a storm blowing across a country? The idea seemed preposterous until geologist Geoff King successfully predicted the 1999 earthquake in Izmit that killed twenty five thousand people.