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Earth Tides Trigger Earthquakes

Posted by michael on from the shaky-ground dept.

Dirak writes "UCLA scientists confirmed that Earth tides, produced by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on the Earth, causing the ocean's waters to slosh, can trigger earthquakes. There are many mysteries about how earthquakes occur, but now it is clear that it takes about the force arising from changing the sea level by a couple of meters of water to noticeably affect the rate of earthquakes."

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  1. Re:uh-oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    can you say "global warming"?

    Ssshhhhhh - there are Republicans here. They don't believe in global warming.

  2. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 3, Funny

    I recommend we ban the tides.

    Don't get me wrong, we will still be able to use the tides if we absolutely had to, I'm not saying that we ever would. I'm talking about banning them from the rest of the world.

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