“…The presence of local inelasticity (in particular, rock microplasticity) offers a reasonable explanation of an unusual increase in wave velocity and decrease in attenuation with increasing amplitude detected in some experiments (Johnston and Toksoz ; Mashinskii, Koksharov, and Nefedkin ; Mashinskii ; Mashinskii , , 2012a; Zaitsev, Nazarov, and Talanov ). The microplasticity mechanism does not refute the well‐known mechanisms but expands availability of traditional models that show the opposite situation with amplitude dependence of seismic parameters: The wave velocity decreases, and the attenuation increases with increasing amplitude (Mavko ; Winkler, Nur, and Gladwin ; Tutuncu, Podio, and Sharma ; Ostrovsky and Johnston ).…”