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Blood pressure increases transiently after a major earthquake, but the characteristics and the mechanism of this increase are unknown. ⋯ These elderly patients with hypertension had a substantial increase in blood pressure after a major earthquake; the increase was usually transient, except in patients who had microalbuminuria. The correlation with white-coat hypertension suggests that both phenomena are related to sympathetic activation.