Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

The paradigm that failed

January 1, 1991

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

Publication Year 1991
Title The paradigm that failed
Authors J. C. Savage
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS)
Index ID 70168824
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse