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Typhoons Take Pressure Off Earthquake Zones Monday, June 15, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Can storms prevent nasty earthquakes? That's the suggestion of study showing that typhoons can trigger benign, "slow" quakes that ease the stress between tectonic plates. Beneath Taiwan, a tectonic plate is diving under its neighboring plate at one of the world's fastest rates. "You can almost watch them," says study co-author Alan Linde of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC. Yet the island has had fewer big rumbles than you'd expect from such movement. (source: earth.sinica.edu.tw)
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