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It’s a grim toll-20,000 dead, 166,000 injured, over half a million homeless. January’s earthquake was India’s worst ever. It hit the town of Bhuj like a hammer blow. While the government and aid agencies struggle to get the city back on its feet, seismologists like Rebecca Bendick have been pondering why earthquakes are becoming more frequent in India-and why this is the tenth to hit the Kutch peninsula in 200 years. Are we anywhere near predicting the next one? Bendick has just returned from Bhuj where she peered beneath the Earth’s crust into the mantle. Roland Pease…