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Rain makes the ground shake

A wet weekend may be enough to set off an earthquake.

A spate of rain is all it takes to set off some earthquakes. That's what a team of German geologists has discovered after monitoring swarms of tiny tremors in the mountains of Bavaria.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on October 20, 2006 04:53 PM |

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I'm so glad to read this. I live in Chile, a truly seismic country. Since the big earthquake in Santiago (grade 8 richter i think) in 1985, when I was only three years old, I have noted a relation between the climate and earthquakes, But all the scientists deny this relationship. I do believe that there is a relationship and this article has firmed my position. I'm not a geologist, I study medicine, but I believe in cause-effect. It's just statistics, everytime that weather changes radically, in any season of the year, we feel a small/medium intensity movement (up to 4 grades). So, if it's summer, and suddenly the weather becomes cloudy, we have one. So it happens in winter, and so on.
I wish this has been read by the scientists here and they decide to study this. I wish I could.

Posted by: Paula Cordero | October 21, 2006 05:08 AM

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