Do moon phases produce big earthquakes? Study debunks that idea
January 19, 2018 by Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times
Huge earthquakes are not significantly influenced by the moon, a new study says.
The study, conducted by U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, looked at earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater over the past four centuries. And a review of more than 200 earthquakes demonstrated that there is no connection between the phase of the moon and the time when huge seismic events of magnitude 8 and greater strike.
"That's obviously a big earthquake myth: that big earthquakes happen on the full moon," Hough said in an interview. Her study was published Tuesday in the journal Seismological Research Letters, a publication of the Seismological Society of America.
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