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At least 17 earthquakes have been recorded near Area 51, in Nevada, over the past two days, drawing attention online and speculation around nuclear testing. But Dr. Robert Shcherbakov , associate professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, says there’s a perfectly ordinary scientific explanation for the activity. In an interview with National Post, he explained: “We call these events ‘swarms’, where earthquakes or similar issues occur in a short period of time, and they’re related to changes in fluids migrating under the Earth’s surface.” The recent quakes...