Jornal de Geologia e Geofísica
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Why the Earth Quakes

Gianni Donati*

The electrons spread over nuclei, the Earth rotates on its axis and completes its revolution around the Sun, and the Solar System goes around the Galaxy center, with speeds in between 1.700. And 800.000 km/h, but we have no perception of these movements.

Instead we can measure and feel, every day the Earth vibrate under our feet and here we assume that the cause of the astronomic and local phenomena is the same.

The Earth is our home but we have not yet completely discovered the secrets it hides under its 100 km of crust and we do not know and cannot predict why, where and when it starts to quake.

Our vision of gravity, derived from the analysis of the nuclear structure and used to understand the phenomena underlying the motion of the Earth and of the Galaxy, can be applied to explain why the Earth quakes.

We hope that this new idea could be used, in future studies, by geologists and seismologists to predict where and when the next disruptive earthquake will occur.