Earthquake Weather

And from memory so too did Conception, Chile. The belief behind earthquake weather is that pockets of air trapped in underground caves shifts around due to the weather on the surface of the Earth.

The bigger the shift, the bigger the quake. However scientists say there is no proof that this exists and maintain that earthquakes can happen in any weather in any season at any time of the day, month or year. I have to admit, I tend to agree, however the big earthquakes, the ones that make the news, do seem to happen on calm, clear, days.

An article in Wikipedia caught my attention. It says Geologist Russell Robinson has described earthquake weather as one of the more common pseudoscientific methods of predicting earthquakes. A modern theory proposes that certain cloud formations may be used to predict earthquakes, however, this idea is rejected by most geologists.

The article says geologists maintain that there is no connection between weather and earthquakes. They are the result of geologic processes within the earth and can happen in any weather and at any time during the year. It's not for all earthquakes.

The aftershocks following Edgecumbe were accompanied by thunderstorms. But for those big, main event quakes there does seem to be a weird coincidence. Of course earthquakes happen a long way underground. The one in Christchurch was shallow, just 10kms.

That's still 2 kms further than Mt Everest reaches. It would seem utterly impossible for something 10kms underground, let alone 50 or kms underground, to be affected by weather on the surface of our planet. Sign into your NZ Herald. On the go and no time to finish that story right now?

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