Is this earth's inner core emanating large rumbles exciting news or

[jberryhill]

4. Ummm...

http://seismonet.org/page.html?id_node=157

The accuracy of short-term prediction of earthquakes is more than 90%. New philosophy and the applied physical principle of earthquake prediction, patented in PCT (Geneva), are completely different from common methods and technologies of short-term prediction of earthquakes.

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One would hope their understanding of geology exceeds their understanding of the Patent Cooperation Treaty international application process, which doesn't "patent" anything.

But when you run into patent misinformation in the first paragraph or so of the description of a scientific endeavor, it's usually not a good sign.