Earthquakes and CO2-rich fluids may be so closely related geologically that we might even use the "chicken or the egg" analogy to explain the elusive temporality of this relationship. Could deep geologically-derived fluids help trigger some earthquakes or could the triggering of earthquakes cause a fluid release, or are the two effects a consequence of each other? These are just a few of the questions worth exploring in more detail.
A series of articles by the HUN-REN Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science was published in the October issue of the Physical Reviews (Fizikai Szemle) entitled:
"Earthquakes through a physical lens or what the news misses".
In the columns of the Physics Reviews, members of the research team (Márta Berkesi and colleagues) summarise the known links between earthquakes, typically of higher magnitude, and fluid flows.
The paper also addresses the following exciting questions:
Whether volcanic eruptions can be caused by earthquakes (by Károly Németh, a research team co-author),
Whether earthquakes can (or will) be predicted (by Sándor Szakács and István Kovács),
How we can see the traces of earthquakes in the upper atmosphere (Veronika Barta and colleagues).
Articles related to the Institute are available at the link below:
