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The moon may affect the intensity of earthquakes.
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The moon may affect the intensity of earthquakes.
By Korey Haynes
Full moons and new moons have long been omens of strange happenings and
ill fortunes. While humans are probably still to blame for our own
eccentricities,
it turns out that some earthquakes might indeed be a response to the
moon’s pull. Researchers led by Satoshi Ide of the University of Tokyo
discovered that
larger earthquakes — like Chile’s 2010 disaster, or Japan’s 2011 quake
that spawned a devastating tsunami — are more likely to occur when the
moon is near
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