The stubborn old belief that certain weather precedes earthquakes

Boing Boing examines a persistent belief that certain weather conditions — hot, still, and oppressive — herald an incoming earthquake. A geologist cited in the article describes this notion, commonly called earthquake weather, as one of the most frequent pseudoscientific approaches people use when trying to predict seismic events.

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