Providence: A Seismic Thriller

When a file appears in a government seismic archive with no origin, no author, and no explanation, data analyst Pete Chen brings it to seismologist Jack Mercer. The file contains thirty days of earthquake predictions for Southern California — specific magnitudes, locations, and times. The first eight have already happened. Perfectly. To the minute.

With eighteen days remaining and a magnitude 8.4 predicted for the San Andreas Fault, Jack flies to Los Angeles with a folder he can’t authenticate and a story no one should believe. What follows is a race not against the earthquake — which cannot be stopped — but against the institutions, the bureaucracies, and the reasonable people who will do nothing until it is too late.