Met Mailbag is your chance to have a Weather Plus Meteorologist answer your weather question. Each Thursday, our NBC Weather Pulse Blog will publish the answers to questions you send us. This week's questions were answered by NBC Weather Plus Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri

Question: I've heard of earthquake weather. What is it?
Submitted by Stacy Watson, Kansas City, Mo.

Answer: Earthquakes do involve a part of the earth and its energy, but as far as weather and it's influence on earthquakes, there is no scientific evidence leading to this idea.

When I read your question, Stacy, I said no right away, but I did think back to school and remember some early ideas on this way back when...

It turns out your question is not entirely in left field. According to the USGS, back as far as the 4th century B.C., theorist often thought there was a connection with wind, where it would get trapped in deep pockets of the earth and cause the ground to shift.

This later proved false as we learned through study that many earthquakes originate miles below the earths surface, where temperature, rain and wind would have zero effect. So, the next time we have a large storm and there happens to be an earthquake you now know there is no relation.

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