Thectonic plates have been in place basically since creation, they shift irregardless to what is going on above them. I am no earthquake expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last Night.... (LOL!)
I learned in earth science class in like 5th grade that earthquakes are caused by the shifting of tectonic plates, therefore it is impossible the myth of gorebal climate change could cause the tectonic plates to shift.
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If you can%26#039;t tell I don%26#039;t believe in GOREbal Warming..I think it is a trojan horse, that is being used to force a one world government down peoples throats, which is a sign we are in the End Times.
Göran Ekström and colleagues from Harvard and Boston Universities have carried out a detailed analysis of long-period seismic data from about 100 seismometers distributed around the world (Ekström et al. 2003). Using a computer-intensive procedure to optimize the alignment of signals, they have been able to narrow down the source locations of over 7000 seismic events. Of these, all but 521 are interpreted to be long-period vibrations associated with known earthquakes, and of the 521 all but 71 are located in seismically active areas (eg. at plate boundaries). 46 of the 71 unexplained events are located in glaciated areas - most of them in Greenland (42), with a few in Antarctica (3) and Alaska (1).
A model of the sliding mechanism of the Alaska event shows that it is parallel to the interpreted direction of movement the Dall Glacier. Similar models for some of the Greenland events, most of which are situated close the edge of the ice sheet, also show mechanisms that are consistent with presumed ice-movement directions.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn88...
Glacial earthquakes rock Greenland ice sheet
A rapid increase in “glacial earthquakes” – caused by sudden large movements of glaciers – over the past few years indicates that warmer temperatures will destroy the Greenland ice sheet faster than expected, a new study warns.
Surface meltwater is not dribbling away, as if from a giant ice block melting slowly, but is seeping through cracks to the bottom of the glacier. Once there it forms a layer that %26quot;helps lift the glacier up from the rock%26quot; so it flows faster to the sea, says seismologist Göran Ekström at Harvard University, US, who led the study.
He discovered the glacial quakes three years ago, when looking for unusual earthquakes, and traced them to slips within the ice. And the quakes can be substantial: a 10-metre slip of an ice slab roughly the size of Manhattan Island, and as tall as the Empire State building, causes a magnitude-5 quake on the Richter scale.
When the team analysed glacial seismic records back to 1993, they found a striking increase in the number of quakes recorded in recent years. All 136 of the best-documented slips were traced to glaciated valleys draining the main Greenland ice sheet. A handful of others occurred in Alaskan glaciers or on Antarctica.
Ekström reports that quakes ranged from six to 15 per year from 1993 to 2002, then jumped to 20 in 2003, 23 in 2004, and 32 in the first 10 months of 2005 – matching an increase in Greenland temperatures.
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As for earthquakes caused by tectonic plates, they won%26#039;t be %26quot;caused%26quot; by global warming, but as the earth%26#039;s surface warms 10 degrees F I don;t see how the earth%26#039;s crust could help but expand (as the oceans do as they warm), magnifying the stresses that are already present in the system.
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This is a bit logical phenomenon. It has got all relation. Due to global warming ice at the polar caps is melting rapidly and the weight over the Antarctic and other adjoining plates is shifting and therefore they are sliding rapidly past each other causing quakes. There%26#039;s more explanation to this but only if you agree with this fact then you can understand the other part. If you want answers feel free to contact: kap_al_ali@yahoo.co.in -
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The rise in temperature is accentuated by man but plate tectonics is unaffected. Climatologist