Earthquakes are caused by a sudden movement along faults within the Earth, but new research by MIT scientists suggests that heavy snowfall and rain could play a role play in setting off tremors.
Since late 2020, the northeastern region of Japan’s Noto Peninsula has been shaken by a relentless barrage of earthquakes, occurring at an astonishing ... causing the rock to expand and the ground to ...
According to them, heavy snowfall has more of an influence than heavy rain. For Qingyu Wang, lead author and seismologist ...
In a study appearing today in Science Advances, the researchers report that episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a ... Noto’s seismic activity is an “earthquake swarm” — a pattern ...
Evan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News. He can be reached at Evan.Bush@nbcuni.com. A new theory suggests that heavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes — evidence that ...
A patch of heavy rain ... trigger to them. Surprisingly enough, the researchers found that these quakes often coincided with heavy precipitation events, particularly when there was intense ...
A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Monday shook the area of central Japan that was hit by a devastating jolt in January, ...
VOV.VN - Over the past days, heavy rain has caused landslides and flooding across several northern provinces and cities of Vietnam, including Ha Giang, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, and Nam Dinh. A car ...