The Jupiter Effect - the key to earthquakes ?

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By John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann
Published by Fontana 1977
Paperback, 156 pages, clean reading copy

Earthquakes are the most devastating natural phenomenoa known to man and for centuries scientists have sought to explain how and why they occur.

Recent research has revelaed to geophysicists the mechanics of seismic activity. But the explanation of what actually triggers off titanic forces stored within the Earth's crust has continually eluded them.

Now, for the first time, two young scientists put together the scattered clues - tidal movements, sunspot activity, planetary magnetic field, the physical links between the Earth & the Sun - to provide the key to earthquake prediction, and the dramatic evidence for the exact date and location of what could be the most massive earthquake in human history....