Earthquake frequency after Japanese quake?

Discussion in 'Earth Science' started by Spica, Mar 13, 2011.

  1. Rocks Registered Member

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    First, you have a hypothesis, not a theory. You have an untested hypothesis. Theories are ideas that are tested in many ways by many people and have enough evidence to support their possibility. There is no evidence that weather or barometric pressure can cause earthquakes (which usually occur many kilometers or 10s of kms beneath the earth). Think about it: If high atmospheric pressure could cause massive plate movement of 1000s of feet of solid rock, then it would also crush houses and skyscrapers.

    No, they don't. We just talk about the ones that happen near populated areas. It would also be very hard to hide data at monitoring stations since ]many are hosted by universities and monitored by graduate students and plenty of non-govt faculty. Such a cover-up would have been exposed long ago, and we're only still learning what "normal" really is.
     
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