The following report from NewScientist.com has our old friends "Cause" and "Effect" the wrong way around as they have not included the Sun's Solar Wind with the "Lunar Forcing" article. This time Michael Marshall has gone outside the Earth to look for an answer to Earthquakes...GR
Monitoring tides could predict major quakes - Michael Marshall - newscientist.com
THE rise and fall of the tides could help us to predict major earthquakes like the magnitude 9 quake that triggered Japan's tsunami last year.
Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, says that as stresses build up in the Earth's crust, it becomes more susceptible to minor earthquakes triggered by tidal forces, a sign of major quakes to come. She has spent over a decade amassing evidence for her theory. According to her latest results, tidally triggered earthquakes were rife off the north-east coast of Japan for several years before 2011's massive earthquake.
"I read hundreds of earthquake prediction papers," says Ross Stein of the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. "The vast majority is dry rot. Tanaka's stands out. It could be very important."
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