<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Arthur David Olson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arthurdavidolson@gmail.com" target="_blank">arthurdavidolson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Seems there's a correlation between leap seconds and earthquakes.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Upsurge in big earthquakes predicted for 2018 as Earth rotation slows."</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/18/2018-set-to-be-year-of-big-earthquakes?CMP=edit_2221" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>world/2017/nov/18/2018-set-to-<wbr>be-year-of-big-earthquakes?<wbr>CMP=edit_2221</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe. There are other causes for long term LOD changes which might confuse this - and, note that they are not saying the the angular momentum required for these LOD changes comes from Earthquakes, but that both have the same root cause (presumably, fluid motions in the liquid outer core).<br><br></div><div>Regards<br></div><div>Marshall Eubanks<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">   @dashdashado</div>
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