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
“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
The moon was overcast, and the atmosphere stifling and oppressive, precursory of a thunderstorm.
From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux
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