:00:00. > :00:00.Coming up, we'll tell you how to predict an earthquake.
:00:00. > :00:16.Plus, the turtle and his penguin pals preparing to go home.
:00:17. > :00:19.But first, to the scientific discovery that could help predict -
:00:20. > :00:22.for the first time ever - when earthquakes will happen.
:00:23. > :00:25.Experts have spent years trying to figure out when devastating quakes
:00:26. > :00:28.will occur but and now a team in Sweden they think they might
:00:29. > :00:36.Big earthquakes don't tend to happen in the UK but in some parts
:00:37. > :00:40.of the world they can destroy entire cities and leave millions
:00:41. > :00:45.But for years they have been the only natural disaster experts
:00:46. > :00:48.REPORTER: It is bigger than the US state
:00:49. > :00:51.of California and it is powering ever closer to shore.
:00:52. > :00:55.Weather forecasters can plot paths of tornadoes and hurricanes
:00:56. > :01:00.and predict heavy rains or flooding and even volcanoes are monitored
:01:01. > :01:04.for warning signs that show when they are about to erupt.
:01:05. > :01:10.But the same could never be said about earthquakes - until now.
:01:11. > :01:13.Scientists think they have come up with the new method and it is
:01:14. > :01:19.Earthquakes are caused when huge pieces of rock on the Earth's
:01:20. > :01:21.surface called tectonic plates rub together and force waves of energy
:01:22. > :01:28.This causes the tremors and shakes felt during
:01:29. > :01:31.an earthquake, and experts examining groundwater before two separate
:01:32. > :01:34.earthquakes in Iceland found the chemicals in the water changed
:01:35. > :01:40.They think it is all because of stress building in the rocks beneath
:01:41. > :01:47.Firstly, it shows that something happens before an earthquake,
:01:48. > :01:50.and if we are ever going to be able to predict earthquakes we need
:01:51. > :01:57.Secondly, that something is something we can measure and detect.
:01:58. > :02:00.This is just one study and some scientists say the new
:02:01. > :02:06.It is possible for changes in fluid flow to arise
:02:07. > :02:12.Fluids in volcanically active regions can be affected
:02:13. > :02:18.So just because we observe them doesn't necessarily mean there is
:02:19. > :02:24.But everyone is hoping that more work to successfully predict
:02:25. > :02:27.when earthquakes will happen could help save millions
:02:28. > :02:36.Fighter planes have started dropping bombs on Syria for the first time
:02:37. > :02:39.as President Barack Obama continues his plan to try and beat a radical
:02:40. > :02:45.IS is a militant Muslim group which has taken over large parts
:02:46. > :02:48.of Iraq and Syria in the last couple of months.
:02:49. > :02:51.It wants to create a new country with strict Islamic
:02:52. > :02:55.rules and has tried to harm people who don't agree with its aims.
:02:56. > :02:57.Obama has promised to stop the group and has already bombed
:02:58. > :03:02.But this is the first time the group has been targeted in Syria
:03:03. > :03:08.and some other Middle Eastern countries have backed the US.
:03:09. > :03:10.Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, is expected to call
:03:11. > :03:14.for 16 year-olds to be able to vote in all future elections.
:03:15. > :03:18.He'll speak about the issue when the Scottish Parliament meets today, the
:03:19. > :03:22.first time since Scotland voted no to becoming an independent country.
:03:23. > :03:25.The voting age was cut to 16 for last Thursday's referendum, for
:03:26. > :03:35.Now - penguins, sharks and other sea life are all taking to the motorway
:03:36. > :03:37.this morning as they prepare for a big homecoming later today.
:03:38. > :03:40.Last winter's storms destroyed the Sea Life Centre in Hunstanton,
:03:41. > :03:43.near Norwich, and all the animals who lived there had to be moved.
:03:44. > :03:47.But after ten months their original home has been repaired
:03:48. > :03:50.and wildlife experts will spend today transporting as many of them
:03:51. > :03:58.as possible back there - and the BBC's John Maguire is with them.
:03:59. > :04:05.Big it is an amazing view. You probably can see the reflections on
:04:06. > :04:11.the glass but there is a huge replica of a dinosaur above us here.
:04:12. > :04:15.This tank will welcome a turtle, the fastest Turtle in the East. It is on
:04:16. > :04:20.the way down from another Sea life Centre on the coast, it was an
:04:21. > :04:25.incredible operation, tidal flooding caused the damage here. We have
:04:26. > :04:30.three or four feet of sea water throughout the building. We lost
:04:31. > :04:35.mains power and we were just encircled by a saltwater lake. Other
:04:36. > :04:39.way around the building we had water coming in through every doorway and
:04:40. > :04:46.up through the floors. It became very apparent that we were facing a
:04:47. > :04:51.major event. ?3 million they have spent to try to reopen the aquarium.
:04:52. > :04:54.They have three weeks to go until it reopens but today is a big operation
:04:55. > :04:56.to start bringing some of the animals back into the tanks.
:04:57. > :05:01.That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.