What's with all the earthquakes??? is this due to climate change?

Question

another one in australia. what a start to the summer season eh? Could it be that the earths' temperature( the earth itself, not the surrounding) is changing.

Answer 1

No. Earthquakes are due to movement of tectonic plates under the earth. The movement of countries and grinding plates is the cause and is urelated to global warming. Natural disasters related to wind are more related to the temperature when forming.

Answer 2

Traditional earthquakes are mainly due to plate tektonics or volcanic processes.  Generally that's all happening too deep to be affected by small changes in temperature and any minor thermal expansion at the surface.

However, tremors up to magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale can be caused by movement of glaciers, and those quakes are increasing in frequency:

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Answer 3

Sure why not?  The increased number of meteors are also because of global warming as well.

Answer 4

This isn't my area nor do I know the primary cause. But if a new mountain range where created, it would seem to work the other way around. Here's and interesting link...or I thought so.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/eart...

Answer 5

Nö.  They are nöt the result öf climate change.

Answer 6

The extra magnetic field of the sun is helping GW, climate change and earthquakes.

Answer 7

no it is the end of the world. sorry pat robison was right look around it has been one thing after another. 9-11 then the storms on the coast then snow like we have never seen it. then fires, then flooding. and now tornado's and in places that have even had them before so more demand. and then the ice caps melting. it has been going on for a long time. i think like ten years ago i remember them saying there was a hole in the o zone layer over the caps and that it might hurt us in the long run well i guess their were right unlike the news then that said oh well it wont hurt like they are saying now. i guess the hippies from the 70 would be happy knowing that they were right also.

Answer 8

All things bad, are because of the man made co2 component to the atmosphere. Including mortgage issues.

Answer 9

Extremely unlikely. Gravitational shifts as in having the moon (and other planets) move relative to earth may have this effect.

If you look at the amount of weight that shifts via the tides every day, it is almost surprising how little movement of the tectonic plates we have.

Removing all the glaciers from Antarctica has not happened, in fact total ice on that continent has barely budged. We have lost a bit of ice elsewhere, but nothing compared to the daily shift of mass via the tides.

If there is any place we might look for a causal relationship, it might be Alaska through Kamchatka, Here we have some loss of glaciers close to volcanic activity and repeated earthquakes. But we do not need global warming to explain this.

Answer 10

tell your mother to stop jumping

Answer 11

YES definitely ,people don't want to scare us they sugar coat things..It's mans fault with their nuclear pollution .oil spills sending nuclear scraps in space litterally throwing garbage in space.The ozone layeretc... too many chemicals that pollute our environment.This is the result of GREED  MONEY and MANPOWER .How sad!

Answer 12

I've never heard of any connection between earthquakes and the temperature.

Answer 13

No! How could there possibly be any connection? It's plate tectonics that causes earthquakes. An extra  degree change in average temperature in 100 years is nothing that could cause a change in the movement of plates. Earthquakes are continual and have been since the plates on the earth started their slow travels.