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Weather Affects Timing Of Some Natural Hazards - Science News - 0 views

  • Seasonal patterns of rainfall and snowfall can affect how often quakes and volcanoes go off, scientists reported December 8 at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
  • monsoon storms runs off the mountains
  • weight bends the Earth’s crust slightly
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  • this bending causes the surface to move back and forth
  • Seismic records collected from 1998 to 2004 show that the number of quakes drops in the rainy summer months and rebounds when things dry out.
  • the flexing eases the stress on the fault where two tectonic plates collide beneath the Himalayas.
  • seismicity
  • Positioning System
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