Explanation
The question asks us for an inference, and it doesn't give
us any details to latch onto, so we can start with our sense of the passage as
a whole and look for an answer choice that must be true, given the passage.
Choice (A) need not be true, given the passage, so it's out. (B) might be true, so we can come back to it. Choice (C) makes a
speculation that we have no grounds for, so it's out. Choice (D) is
unsupported; we have no information to determine which method is more popular.
Choice (E) is inaccurate, since the author has already called the method
"important." That leaves us with choice (B) only. Must it be true? Indeed, it
must, as we can gather from the part of paragraph three in which the "rival"
technique is discussed. The drawback of that method is that a foreshock could
indicate an earthquake, and a lack of foreshock could also indicate an
earthquake.
The correct answer is (B).
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