There is no modern day history of any relationship between air turbulence and land movement. Until now?No reports out of California? The fault involved ends very near the Baja Peninsula where Tropical Storm Lidia occurred for four long days.
There is some research that is interesting, to say the least. The question is what came first the chicken or the egg. Hydrologic pressure can occur when water seeps into cracks in the earth.
The death toll will depend on the population within the shake zone.
September 8, 2017
By Doreen McCallister
..." 'The house moved (click here) chewing gum and the light and internet went out momentarily,' " said Rodrigo Soberanes, who lives near San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, a poor, largely indigenous state popular with tourists.
"Chiapas Gov. Manuel Velasco said that three people were killed in San Cristobal, including two women who died in San Cristobal when a house and a wall collapsed. He called on people living near the coast to leave their houses as a protective measure.
"There is damage to hospitals that have lost energy," he said. "Homes, schools and hospitals have been damaged."
"Civil Defense in Chiapas said on its Twitter account that its personnel were in the streets aiding people and warned residents to prepare for aftershocks.
"In neighboring Guatemala, President Jimmy Morales spoke on national television to call for calm while emergency crews checked for damage.
"We have reports of some damage and the death of one person, even though we still don't have details," Morales said. He said the unconfirmed death occurred in San Marcos state near the border with Mexico."...
An aspect of research that has yet to be encouraged is isostatic rebound. It is the pressure placed upon the continent by ice. The ice on continents that connect with the seas is believed to be static. It is not. Over the millennia ice waxes and wanes and has a direct effect on the stability of cratons.
April 22, 2013
By Colin Schultz
In August 23, 2011 (click here) a rare magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Virginia. The shaking cracked the Washington Monument, toppled part of the National Cathedral and shook around a third of the U.S. population. Later that week, Hurricane Irene moved into the region, wiping out power, downing trees and, according to new research presented at the meeting of Seismological Society of America, says Nature, triggering more small earthquakes in the recently ruptured fault....
In order to secure such research a direct relationship has to be drawn between seismic activity and 'ice extent' (click here). There may or may not be enough information accumulated to complete these conclusions. It really needs to be researched further. It is a chronic missing piece.
Glaciologist records may fall short of complete ice inventory. Glaciologist concern themselves with 'mass balance' to realize the stability of glaciers. However, when ice melts on the continent there is an increase in sea ice. That is a direct correlation between the extent of ice on land and the runoff to the sea.
The beauty of a complete assessment of the ice is to talk to the people who live on or near it or encounter it. For the earthquake of 2011 there are still residents of the north that will recall the challenges of fishing and living with the ice that contacted the North American continent. Greenland and it's people are probably a wealth of information regarding changes in ice from year to year.
Seth Stein, Frank Pazzaglia, Anne Meltzer, Emily Wolin, Alan Kafka, Claudio Berti
These earthquakes (click here) are interesting because of where they happen. Most of the world's earthquakes occur along the boundaries between plates, like the San Andreas Fault. That's because earthquakes happen when forces in the earth make faults move. Plate tectonics explains the faults that are part of the boundary between plates and that the force to move them comes from the motion between the plates on either side. Earthquakes inside plates are rarer because the movements between plates are much faster than motion within plates. If plates behaved perfectly there'd be no motion within them, and earthquakes wouldn't happen there. That's almost, but not perfectly, true. Earthquakes do happen within plates, including along the east coast.
