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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. And your Ma Ma... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is so fat she causes earthquakes too.

    1. Re:And your Ma Ma... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shit, I was just going to post that. Great minds think alike.

  2. Drnka by LordHunter317 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG I'm DRNKA LOL !!!!!!111ononeoneone

    Like, and then the RAs broke up the party. They suck.