The Jupiter Effect: The Planets as Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes (Rare, 1974)

It is rare for a science book to capture the imagination and concern in the way that The Jupiter Effect did. See The Jupiter Effect on the website of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From the back cover of The Jupiter Effect:

Once the province of astrologers and soothsayers, earthquake prediction has recently become an urgent pursuit of modern science. In The Jupiter Effect, two young scientists present a chilling hypothesis with astrological overtones: the forthcoming Grand Alignment of all the planets in 1982, the first such in 179 years, may well trigger a California earthquake far worse than the San Francisco catastrophe of 1908.

In establishing this ominous link between planetary motion and accumulating strain in the San Andreas Fault, the authors examine, with great clarity, findings on the role of continental drift in earthquake tensions and the latest research into storms on the earth and on the sun.