China News Service, September 5th (Kan Feng and Wei Xianghui) On the 5th, after the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred in Luding County, Sichuan, some netizens on the Internet used the saying that "there will be a major earthquake after a major drought", comparing the earthquake with this summer. associated with dry weather in parts of the South.
Sun Shihong, a researcher at the China Earthquake Networks Center, said that at present, there is controversy over the relationship between drought and earthquakes in the academic community, and there is no conclusion.
It is impossible to label and simplify the understanding with the phrase "after a major drought, there must be a major earthquake", and it is also impossible to over-amplify and spread this sentence after an earthquake.
In the field of earthquake prediction, it is not possible to simply predict earthquakes with a meteorological event.
But Sun said, "One thing I think is certain is that the climate change we feel is definitely related to the movement of the earth's inner crust."