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How climate change will affect the frequence or intensity of eartquakes? I agree that, on current predictions taking already know effects, heat, floods and hur
by gmuslera 7y ago
How climate change will affect the frequence or intensity of eartquakes?
I agree that, on current predictions taking already know effects, heat, floods and hurricanes should increase.
And, as we are getting into new global conditions compared with historic records, we may face other negative effects due to feedback loops and unexpected interactions, but I don't know how that will affect eartquakes, unless it forces people to move to areas where they are more common.
- torstenvl 7y agoIt was demonstrated pretty convincingly over a decade ago that variations in atmospheric pressure can increase fault activity. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08042 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08042
- radmarshallb 7y agoIn addition, there is a newly discovered phenomenon called a stormquake. As storms become more powerful due to climate change, we may also see increased seismic activity. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-seismic-phenomenon-discovered-named-stormquakes/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-seism...
- whinythepooh 7y agoThose are slow earthquakes that can be ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake Also there are already hurricanes in the map legend. Nobody would notice a little earthquake during a hurricane.