Seems hard… weather is a structure in the Piagetian sense, with lots of individual elements influencing each other via static forces. Earthquakes are-AFAIU as a non-expert Californian-more about physical rock structures within the crust that we have only a vague idea of. Although hey, hopefully I’m wrong; maybe there’s a kind of pre-earthquake tremor for some kinds of quake that a big enough transformer could identify…