Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
There’s no doubt that rivers can be powerful forces of nature. So the possibility of rivers causing earthquakes which has been considered in a new research could explain quakes that happen far from tectonic-plate boundaries.
Intraplate earthquakes require three ingredients.
First, there must be faults, or weaknesses in the Earth’s crust, far from a plate boundary. Second, stresses must build up at those…
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