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

These observations suggest perhaps there really are precursory signals for at least some huge quakes.

From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 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

With or without precursory symptoms of systemic disturbance, irregularly scattered blebs, few or in numbers, make their appearance, arising from erythematous spots or from apparently normal skin.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman