Seth Stein: The quake killerProfile of geophysicist Seth Stein, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Stein's views are controversial, and are diametrically opposed to a number of other scientists. Stein believes that the US Geological Survey (USGS) has inflated the quake risk in the New Madrid region. Published online 9 November 2011 | Nature 479, 166-170 (2011) | doi:10.1038/479166a