Talk:Research articles predict next earthquake

Copyvio
There are major sections of this article lifted from the sources with minor alterations.

WN article:


 * Using the "scaling" approach from physics, Prof. Havlin and his team developed a mathematical function to characterize earthquakes of a wide range of magnitudes in order to learn from smaller magnitude earthquakes about larger magnitude earthquakes. Their findings reveal that the recurrence of earthquakes is strongly dependent on the recurrence times of previous earthquakes.  Two earthquakes separated by a short recurrence time, for example, are likely to be followed by a third earthquake which recurs close in time, whereas two earthquakes separated by a large recurrence time are likely to be followed by a third earthquake recurring further apart in time.  This memory effect not only provides a clue to understanding the observed clustering of earthquakes, but also suggests that apparrent regular gaps in earthquake occurrences, as seen in Tokyo and in San Francisco, are statistically significant.

Haydan article:


 * Using the "scaling" approach from physics, Prof. Havlin and his team developed a mathematical function to characterize earthquakes of a wide range of magnitudes in order to learn from smaller magnitude earthquakes about larger magnitude earthquakes. Their findings reveal that the recurrence of earthquakes is strongly dependent on the recurrence times of previous earthquakes.  Two earthquakes separated by a short recurrence time, for example, are likely to be followed by a third earthquake which recurs close in time, whereas two earthquakes separated by a large recurrence time are likely to be followed by a third earthquake recurring further apart in time.  This memory effect not only provides a clue to understanding the observed clustering of earthquakes, but also suggests that delays in earthquake occurrences, as seen today in Tokyo and in San Francisco, are a natural phenomenon.

I've not tagged it as there looks as if there is some original material in it, but this paragraph needs cut and revised. Brian McNeil / talk 08:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Some of the article has also been copied from the Nature news article, "Could we speed up quake warnings?"  I'm trying to clean this mess up. --JWSchmidt 14:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

It is better now. Does Wikinews have a good tool to compare two texts (check for copied text)? --JWSchmidt 16:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for picking up the "mess" I found, I'm unaware of any tools to detect copied text, this case was just a lucky eyeballing of the cut'n'paste. Brian McNeil / talk 16:37, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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'by by' => 'by' Van der Hoorn (talk) 20:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done &mdash; Gopher65talk 02:04, 7 March 2009 (UTC)