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Earthquake prediction is a long-sought goal. Changes in groundwater chemistry before earthquakes in Iceland highlight a potential hydrogeochemical precursor, but such signals must be evaluated in the context of long-term, multiparametric data sets.

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Figure 1: Possible precursory signals to the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Japan.

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  1. S. E. Ingebritsen is in the United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025-3561, USA,

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  2. M. Manga is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA,

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Ingebritsen, S., Manga, M. Hydrogeochemical precursors. Nature Geosci 7, 697–698 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2261

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