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The stubborn old belief that certain weather precedes earthquakes

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 26, 2026
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The idea that a particular kind of weather — hot, still, and heavy — arrives just before an earthquake is old and stubborn. One geologist has called earthquake weather one of the most common pseudoscientific ways people try to predict quakes.

You can trace it back to Aristotle, who argued in…

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