Around the World | Do earthquakes affect the weather and what is the relationship between climate change and that?

Arab Weather - After the recent earthquake that occurred yesterday in the Middle East, specifically southern Syria, which was felt by most of the region’s residents and whose effects also reached some Jordanian cities, some people have an important question about the relationship between earthquakes and weather conditions around the world, and whether climate change is a reason behind earthquakes?

Weather forecasters at Arab Weather say that there are some studies proving that global warming caused by climate change is responsible in one way or another for many extreme events and natural disasters around the world, as there are hypotheses confirming the existence of a relationship between the recent increase in the incidence of earthquakes and volcanoes and the rise in the Earth’s temperature.

From another perspective, some experts say that the only connection that has been observed between earthquakes and weather is that large changes in air pressure caused by major storms such as hurricanes have sometimes been shown to lead to what are known as “slow earthquakes,” which release energy over relatively long periods of time and do not cause the ground to shake as much as a conventional earthquake.

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Some studies confirm the relationship between earthquakes and changes in weather conditions.

However, some experts said that with regard to the weather, the weather system is completely linked to geology, as the phenomenon of earthquakes affects the air depressions, specifically the rush of cold masses and their stability. However, despite this, these remain just studies and private efforts, and the relationship between the occurrence of earthquakes and the weather conditions can be summarized as follows:

• Atmospheric pressures fluctuate and decrease significantly in earthquake zones within a week to 10 days.
• Every earthquake zone must be, during the period of one week to 10 days, a low pressure zone that attracts cold masses.
• The recurrence of earthquakes in a certain area, regardless of the degree of earthquake strength, turns it into a low-pressure area for a period of time.
• The occurrence of an earthquake in a certain area gives an indication of the presence of a depression in that area during the period mentioned above, without referring to the fluctuations of maps and numerical models.

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