23/09/2014 Newsround

Coming up, we'll tell you how to predict an earthquake.

Plus, the turtle and his penguin pals preparing to go home.

But first, to the scientific discovery that could help predict -

for the first time ever - when earthquakes will happen.

Experts have spent years trying to figure out when devastating quakes

will occur but and now a team in Sweden they think they might

Big earthquakes don't tend to happen in the UK but in some parts

of the world they can destroy entire cities and leave millions

But for years they have been the only natural disaster experts

REPORTER: It is bigger than the US state

of California and it is powering ever closer to shore.

Weather forecasters can plot paths of tornadoes and hurricanes

and predict heavy rains or flooding and even volcanoes are monitored

for warning signs that show when they are about to erupt.

But the same could never be said about earthquakes - until now.

Scientists think they have come up with the new method and it is

Earthquakes are caused when huge pieces of rock on the Earth's

surface called tectonic plates rub together and force waves of energy

This causes the tremors and shakes felt during

an earthquake, and experts examining groundwater before two separate

earthquakes in Iceland found the chemicals in the water changed

They think it is all because of stress building in the rocks beneath

Firstly, it shows that something happens before an earthquake,

and if we are ever going to be able to predict earthquakes we need

Secondly, that something is something we can measure and detect.

This is just one study and some scientists say the new

It is possible for changes in fluid flow to arise

Fluids in volcanically active regions can be affected

So just because we observe them doesn't necessarily mean there is

But everyone is hoping that more work to successfully predict

when earthquakes will happen could help save millions

Fighter planes have started dropping bombs on Syria for the first time

as President Barack Obama continues his plan to try and beat a radical

IS is a militant Muslim group which has taken over large parts

of Iraq and Syria in the last couple of months.

It wants to create a new country with strict Islamic

rules and has tried to harm people who don't agree with its aims.

Obama has promised to stop the group and has already bombed

But this is the first time the group has been targeted in Syria

and some other Middle Eastern countries have backed the US.

Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, is expected to call

for 16 year-olds to be able to vote in all future elections.

He'll speak about the issue when the Scottish Parliament meets today, the

first time since Scotland voted no to becoming an independent country.

The voting age was cut to 16 for last Thursday's referendum, for

Now - penguins, sharks and other sea life are all taking to the motorway

this morning as they prepare for a big homecoming later today.

Last winter's storms destroyed the Sea Life Centre in Hunstanton,

near Norwich, and all the animals who lived there had to be moved.

But after ten months their original home has been repaired

and wildlife experts will spend today transporting as many of them

as possible back there - and the BBC's John Maguire is with them.

Big it is an amazing view. You probably can see the reflections on

the glass but there is a huge replica of a dinosaur above us here.

This tank will welcome a turtle, the fastest Turtle in the East. It is on

the way down from another Sea life Centre on the coast, it was an

incredible operation, tidal flooding caused the damage here. We have

three or four feet of sea water throughout the building. We lost

mains power and we were just encircled by a saltwater lake. Other

way around the building we had water coming in through every doorway and

up through the floors. It became very apparent that we were facing a

major event. ?3 million they have spent to try to reopen the aquarium.

They have three weeks to go until it reopens but today is a big operation

to start bringing some of the animals back into the tanks.

That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.