November 6, 1998
Earthquakes May Cause Eruptions by Distant Volcanoes
Large earthquakes appear to trigger eruptions by distant volcanoes, evidently because they disturb the subterranean network of molten rock on which volcanoes draw for their eruptions, two researchers reported in the October 29 issue of Nature.
Alan T. Linde and I. Selwyn Sacks, researchers at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, made the connection by comparing historical records of the occurrences of
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