The British Geological Survey says scientists have seriously contemplated the role of solar and lunar activity on earthquakes for over 100 years. But they weren’t able to find a compelling explanation for how exactly that occurred—until now.
Turns out, scientists don’t need that complex of a design to see how tidal stresses—caused by the gravitational tug-of-war between the Moon and the Sun—affect Earth’s fault networks. In a study recently published in JGR Solid Earth, a team of geologists primarily based in PSL University in France digitally simulated a spring-block model, in which a block is pulled by a spring. The model was simple but replicated key details. When the researchers...
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