Rainwater can help trigger earthquakes
Along New Zealand fault, precipitation contributes to plates’ slip and slide
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RAINWATER RUMBLES New Zealand’s Southern Alps focus rainwater on the nearby Alpine Fault, researchers propose. That water could help fuel the seismic cycle that generates a colossal earthquake along the fault every few hundred years
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