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.
Remarkably, the heavy snowfall in the winter of 2020 may have been the trigger that unleashed this chain of events ... This groundbreaking study paints a fascinating picture of the complex web of ...
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 ...
According to them, heavy snowfall has more of an influence than heavy rain. For Qingyu Wang, lead author and seismologist ...
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 ...
Since late 2020, the Noto Peninsula in northern Japan has experienced ongoing occurences of earthquake swarms, a series of perplexing seismic events ... Employing a hydromechanical model that allowed ...
KANAZAWA--Snow began falling in ... nearly a week after the powerful earthquake in the Noto Peninsula. The Kanazawa Local Meteorological Office said heavy snowfall was likely through the morning ...