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better2know Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 09:29 PM
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Melting Ice-Caps Should Create World-Wide Earthquakes-
Melting Ice-Caps Should Create World-Wide Earthquakes-

I am not a scientist with the necessary degrees and specialties in orbital mechanics, environmental modeling, and plate tectonics.

This has been mention slightly under google:

Isostatic adjustment-adjustment of earth after glaciers leave
-or-
Isostasy –wikipedia-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostasy

This bears repeating now - this awful tragedy illustrating what earthquakes can mean.
Not just the rate of melt but the rate of increasing melt is huge. Even if all those melting ice-cubes don't disrupt our weather, it seems apparent that releasing hundreds of thousands of square miles of ice, a mile or more thick from the poles will shift a large part of that weight much more towards our equator.
If that won't cause shifting stresses on our tectonic plates floating on the molten core of our planet, I don't know what will.

Problem > Solution
1. Tax toxic chemicals, zero all other taxes.
2. Restore and expand wetlands, drainage, bottom-land, marshes,
swamps world-wide.

Best wishes to you’all
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satori Donating Member (198 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 11:04 PM
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1. Union of Geological Sciences-Underground nuke testing causes earthquakes
The International Union of Geological Sciences says that underground Nuclear Explosions can cause earthquakes anywhere in the world.

The International Union of Geological Sciences

HUMAN OR NATURAL CAUSE: Earthquakes are predominantly natural events. However, shallow-focus seismic tremors can be induced by human actions that change near- surface rock stresses or fluid pressures. These actions include: extracting (or pumping back into the ground for storage or for secondary hydrocarbon recovery) water, gas, petroleum, waste fluids; mining or quarrying activities; and loading the surface with large water bodies (reservoirs). Underground explosions, particularly for nuclear testing, can also generate seismic events.

http://www.lgt.lt/geoin/doc.php?did=cl_seismicity

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