A University of Montana researcher is part of a team whose research is breaking ground on the complexity of earthquakes and the possibility to forecast them. The journal Nature Geoscience features their research online at http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2734.html. Rebecca Bendick, who works in UM’s Department of Geosciences, used GPS records of surface motion to map the 7.8…