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The paradigm that failed

Abstract

Advances in science are memorialized; diversion are soon forgotten. Yet it is a diversion that I commemorate here: the v p /v s anomaly, the so-called seismic velocity ratio, as a method of predicting the time, place, and magnitude of an impending earthquake.

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J.C. Savage. 1991. The paradigm that failed. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70168824

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