Аннотация:The ultimate and noble goal of seismology as a science is to find reliablemeans to predict the place, time and magnitude of expected earthquake.There are significant achievements on the way to this goal: there is a fairlyclear understanding chemical physics and mechanics of the earthquake, thereare reliable indicators and precursors of the approaching seismic events.However, this understanding remains to be purely intellectual achievement; itlooks like highly desirable but hardly attainable purpose. Earthquake predictionis unattainable like absolute zero temperature: you may approach it, butnever reach. As an alternation there is reliable evidence that microwave inducedrelease of energy, accumulated in the earthquake focus, may be implementedby hand-made means (such as magneto-hydrodynamic generators).Magnetic control of the earthquake focus by microwave exposure is a uniquemeans to decrease magnitude of the earthquake and transform catastrophicevent in the less dangerous one. However, positive experience of reducing themagnitude of earthquake is rather limited and hardly may be implemented inpractice; evidently, earthquake control is unfeasible project