The national weather service issues an earthquake warning for los angeles, california. this prediction most likely came from:

The prediction is most likely coming from a geologist. It is because a geologist is the one responsible for studying the matter that constitutes the earth and that contributes to how it produces its shape in which the earthquake is also one of the things that they study.

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