Getting Through It
Getting Through It
Dr. Lucy Jones Center
Episode 78 - The Earthquake Weather Fallacy
10 minutes Posted Dec 3, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
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“Earthquake weather” is one of the oldest and most pervasive earthquake myths. Even though surface weather and earthquakes are not related, they are constantly put in the same mental category. In this episode, we travel back in time to explore the origins of this misconception, from Aristotle's theory about the Earth’s structure, to The Great Lisbon Earthquake and more.