Will earthquake clouds really cause earthquakes?
Rumor:
The clouds in Xi'an today are special, very beautiful, but they are shaped like radioactive stripes. I checked the information and said they were earthquake clouds. Some netizens said this heralded an earthquake in Sichuan.
Rumors refuted:
Clouds in the sky have nothing to do with earthquakes
The theory of "earthquake clouds" has been widely circulated on the Internet. Does there exist "earthquakes"? cloud"?
Please check Baidu Encyclopedia, "Earthquake cloud is a kind of cloud that is misrepresented as being able to predict earthquakes in advance. There is currently no accurate definition, and it is not recognized by the meteorological or geological professions. It is mainly used in There are rumors in China and Japan. Chinese and foreign scientific circles, seismological bureaus, meteorological bureaus and other institutions have repeatedly refuted this rumor, emphasizing that there is currently no effective evidence that clouds can be used to predict earthquakes.
Meteorological professionals believe: From the professional perspective of meteorological observation, various earthquake cloud photos given on the Internet can be classified into the following typical cloud shapes, namely translucent altocumulus clouds, flocculent altocumulus clouds and cirrocumulus clouds, as well as residual aircraft contrails. The so-called earthquake clouds have nothing to do with earthquakes?
Online descriptions of the generation mechanism of earthquake clouds, such as the transformation of geothermal heat into clouds, the generation of changes in the geomagnetic field, and the luminescence of particles, are based on weather dynamics and cloud physics. Analyzes from relevant scientific perspectives such as body mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be established. Geophysicists have never observed changes in magneto-thermal light when "earthquake clouds" appear. Therefore, the analysis of the generation mechanism of earthquake clouds is also unscientific. In principle.
The clouds in the sky are ever-changing, showing the masterpieces of nature. The meteorological department has recorded the formation, changes and certain types of clouds in long-term meteorological observations. The evolution of weather mostly has a stable correspondence. However, there is no sufficient fact to prove that earthquakes and weather are intrinsically related, and there is no evidence that earthquakes can be predicted through satellite cloud images. Li Ting, a doctor of meteorology, believes that "earthquake clouds can be predicted." It is a pseudo-scientific concept." All clouds that are referred to as earthquake clouds have corresponding species in the cloud classification. They are mostly concentrated in altocumulus or stratocumulus because they are easier to form wavy, flocculent, translucent, radial, etc. "It looks weird". The so-called "earthquake cloud" is a general cloud in meteorological observations.
The so-called "earthquake cloud experts" use earthquake clouds to predict earthquakes, often in hundreds of areas. It seems "accurate" to several thousand kilometers. We know that this is actually a misunderstanding. On average, there are more than 5 million large and small earthquakes in the world every year, which means that on average, tens of thousands of earthquakes occur every day. Thousands of earthquakes occur around the world every year, almost two or three times a day on average. In other words, anyone who casually says "there will be an earthquake of magnitude 5 or above in the world today" will definitely win, let alone "earthquake cloud experts." "The time scale for predicting earthquakes has also been relaxed to within a month, so it is easy to predict "hits" of earthquakes.
It is very necessary to expose these methods of earthquake prediction. We must realize The so-called "earthquake clouds" do not exist, and those "beautiful clouds" photographed have nothing to do with earthquakes. They are pseudo-scientific rumors.
Rumor refuting expert: Chen Huizhong, chief scientific communication expert researcher of the Geophysical Information Science Communication Team
Review expert: Shen Ping, researcher of the Geophysical Information Science Communication Team
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