In short, there is no reliable way of forecasting earthquakes, or of avoiding fault lines. "Earthquakes are in Taiwan's future, so rather than denying or ignoring them, or making a lot of useless predictions, or kidding ourselves we can move to safer areas, we'd do much better to buckle down and learn how to make ourselves stronger so that we can live with earthquakes," says Huang Jenn-shin.
這樣推算起來，地震預測不可靠、避開斷層不可恃，「地震是台灣的宿命，與其抗拒、輕忽、做一大堆無效的預測，或是奢望能搬到安全地帶，倒不如好好學習如何強化自己，與地震共處」，黃震興說。