It also revealed annual variations in local gravity due to the natural storage and depletion of water during rainy and dry seasons in different parts of the world. (discovermagazine.com)
This decreasing trend in local gravity is sufficient to counteract all other sources of local sea - level rise. (sciencenordic.com)
Earthquakes jostle matter within the crust, thereby modifying local gravity. (scientificamerican.com)