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precursory

[pri-kur-suh-ree] / prɪˈkɜr sə ri /








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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

“It doesn’t give you a precursory, predictive ability because it’s a statement of how you’ve summed it rather than what’s going on at a particular earthquake,” she adds.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 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

What is one of the precursory symptoms of consumption?

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin




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