China-led team hits 83% success rate anticipating earthquakes in ‘seismo-ripples’ study

South China Morning Post15 October 2026, 12:00 UTCPeople's Republic of China

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...

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