Do Large (Magnitude ≥8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle?

Susan E. Hough

Penerbit : Seismological Research Letters

Tahun : 2018

It is well established that one cannot disprove the hypothesis that global and regional earthquake rates, with aftershocks removed, are essentially random (e.g., Gardner and Knopoff, 1974; Michael, 2011; Shearer and Stark, 2011) and not modulated significantly by external driving forces. Nevertheless, enduring popular lore holds that great earthquake rates are modulated by outside factors such as tides and/or moon phases, weather, and sun spots; such notions are often the basis for earthquake predictions made by nonspecialists (e.g., see Hough, 2011, for a review)

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