Foreshocks may contribute to earthquakes. A little known researcher has a working theory that foreshocks may contribute to earthquakes by turning up the heat on strained plates. The little known researcher has been forecasting earthquakes based on a technique which theorizes friction generated by smaller plate movements causes heat and in mant instances, enough to "wring out" high pressure water from strained faults, lubricating them and causing them to slip with less force, allowing the accumulated strain to relieve shortly after in a larger quake. It is during periods of intense activity that creep is accelerated and the fault then cools and aftershocks decrease. Events are connected in this theory, and at deeper focal points, the added heat may be enough to turn the rock from crystalline to lava, with corresponding local volcanic activity, as pressures push liquid rock toward the surface through fissures. The rock, as it turns form crystalline (solid) to magma (liquid) also releases large amounts of trapped electrical energy from the crystalline formation which may cause the mysterious and well documented earthquake lights observed before many large night time earthquakes. So far the project is in it's infancy, and has been useful in forecasting many earthquake events around the world...Some of the data used in the development was previously known to science, it was just a marriage of several different aspects of science to cover several different aspects of the earthquake nucleation process.
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