[tz] Earth rotation

Marshall Eubanks marshall.eubanks at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 19:53:58 UTC 2017


On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Arthur David Olson <
arthurdavidolson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems there's a correlation between leap seconds and earthquakes.
>
> "Upsurge in big earthquakes predicted for 2018 as Earth rotation slows."
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/18/2018-set-to-
> be-year-of-big-earthquakes?CMP=edit_2221
>
>
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).

Regards
Marshall Eubanks



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