China-led team hits 83% success rate anticipating earthquakes in ‘seismo-ripples’ study
Por Victoria Bela — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Strong predictive potential shown as anomalous patterns verified against 12 major earthquakes in China between 2022 and 2024
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Victoria Bela Published: 8:00pm, 15 Oct 2026 A China-led international team has reported a new pre-earthquake phenomenon that has shown strong predictive potential for major earthquakes since 2022 with minimal failures.
The anomalous seismic, magnetic and ionospheric resonance signals they observed – termed “seismo-ripples” by the researchers – are ringlike disturbance patterns triggered before earthquakes happen.
Their findings challenge the long-standing scientific belief that these events are unpredictable, opening up a promising new path to earthquake prediction.
“Historically, earthquake prediction has been considered nearly infeasible,” said the team from institutes in mainland China and Taiwan , along with Brazil and Japan, in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal NPJ Natural Hazards on Sunday. Select Voice Select Speed 0.8x 0.9x 1.0x 1.1x 1.2x 1.5x 1.75x 00:00 00:00 1x AI-generated voice
