Sentences with phrase «earthquake precursor»

This led to the widely accepted conclusion that it can not be proposed as a reliable earthquake precursor.

Unfortunately, no one has yet found a bona fide earthquake precursor.

Not exact matches

These and other recent earthquakes could be precursors to a much larger, more damaging event, according to some scientists.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

But the CWU team points out that many slow temblors may take place in the 500 or so years between great quakes; this makes it unlikely that any single slow earthquake is going to be a meaningful precursor.

And Ian Main, a University of Edinburgh seismologist who chaired an influential online debate a decade ago on whether earthquakes can be predicted, says that radon has been considered a «marginal [quake] precursor.

To my knowledge, neither radon nor any other kind of observation [other than foreshocks] has been shown to be a reliable precursor of earthquakes.

The United States Geological Survey said that precursors to volcanic eruptions include rapid ground deformation and strong earthquake swarms, which typically occur days to weeks before the actual eruption.