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Published online 20 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061016-15
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Rain makes the ground shake
A wet weekend may be enough to set off an earthquake.
A spate of rain is all it takes to set off some earthquakes. That's what a team of German geologists has discovered after monitoring swarms of tiny tremors in the mountains of Bavaria.
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