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Posted by Conclue on 1/14/2010, 4:35 pm
I don't know about Atmospheric pressures actually being a trigger mechanism for earthqaukes simply because the earth and it's atmosphere have been relatively "stable" for hundreds of thousands of years. (not talking climate here but mass of the atmos etc) so, there'd have to be an extremely anomalously strong high pressure or low pressure that we haven't seen on earth in a really long time to "offset" the equilibrium between the crust and it's atmosphere. Does this make sense? Theres a balance of forces that keep that in check. I think it has alot more to do with the magnetic fields. For example without the magnetic field around earth, the atmosphere would have no protection from solar winds which would eventually 'strip away' the atmosphere over time.

Although I should note I'm just a Atmospheric Science major so I'm just using what I've learned from school and my own interest in these things. Phsyics is more JAC's fortay, he'd konw better than me, but I really began to gain a big fascination with the space-earth enviornement when I was in Physics 3 and since then I love learning as much as I can because I think theres alot of stuff we still don't understand that influences the earth from space.
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