precursory
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"There are some cases where there are dramatic and very distinctive precursory seismic signals that precede a catastrophic landslide, sometimes by as much as days," Highman noted.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
These observations suggest perhaps there really are precursory signals for at least some huge quakes.
From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2023
But researchers said there are few large-scale earthquakes to study in California and that makes it difficult to indicate whether precursory signals at one fault would apply to others.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022
And as far as they could tell, no precursory signals were detected before the 2021 outburst.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022
No one, of course, can suppose that the infinitely complex laws of which we are just now obtaining a precursory glimpse and first faint intimation, can possibly be summarized in any single expression.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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