Is it possible that melting ice causes the balance bewteen tectonic plates to readjust?
Ice sheets that have exerted billions of tonnes of pressure from weight on to the earth for tens of thousands or even millions of years. When this ice melts, or breaks off and goes into the sea, the pressure is released on the ground.
Is there any evidence that this might be happening? Could there be a casual relationship between global warming and the reduction of the ice sheet in Antarctica and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean?
I would be interested in links for further investigation.
2006-10-01 03:10:17 · 12 answers · asked by Sincere Questioner 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Most of the earthquakes that are currently being generated are not thought to be related to global warming. However, crustal rebound resulting from a sudden reduction in pressure may create earthquakes. If you consider Antarctica, most of the land has been pushed below sea level due to the weight of the ice that has accumulated. If this melts the crust will bounce back and fracture, creating earthquakes. There is some evidence to suggest that this happened at the end of the last ice-age when the great glacier that covered the north american continent melted.
2006-10-01 19:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by jimmy the fink 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No! the Global warming is not a cause of earthquakes. the causes of earth quakes are:
"As we know that the earth is very very hot from inside, like buring coal, the earths inner built is extreemly hot. As the time is passing the earth's inner is getting cooler and we know that "when things get cooler they contract and get smaller, so as the earths inner is getting cooler by the passing time, the earths inner in contracting and when such a great body contracts from inside, huge shakes are produced and that are called "Earth Quakes". so in the future we will see many quakes till the inner of the earth finally cools down but that may take more then another million years! Thank you for such a good question!
2006-10-07 06:14:26 · answer #2 · answered by Ayaz Ali 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I'd think it would be the other way around, that would the mother earth got heatedup as the lava flows throu her, and dissipates heats the air and water surrounding it, and the lost of the ozone layer,as had been realize by some of your scientists could have enacted the UV to pass through and burning more of helium or other inflamable gasses on the air.
There sevent layer of the air,aren't they.
as money got burnt a long the way. Save Ur money, Lo !
2006-10-01 12:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very likely. Earthquakes occur when the earth's tectonic plates (which are 'floating' on the molten rock below) move against each other. This is caused by the roiling of the molten core, not by anything "up here".
2006-10-07 13:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how it would. Earthquakes deeper in the earth than the shifting on the surface would be able to affect.
It's possible, but I would think that geophysics is a little more complicated than just melting glacial and sea-ice and causing plates to move
I think the imbalance might cause plates to shift eventually in millions of years, but not on scales that we would be able to see.
Geological time is much longer than we can really recognize in comparison to today.
2006-10-01 17:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by existenz48162 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Throwing aside the head-in-the-sand deniers regarding warming, and tossing over the "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" nuts, it could be true. Redistribution of surface masses could exert changes in pressure loctions in the tectonic plates. Whether this relieves the earthquake situation, by spreading out the surface pressure points, or whether this aggravates it is another question also.
But this is only hypothetical, and requires experiment/investigation to be proven. Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence.
2006-10-01 10:27:33 · answer #6 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO beacuse
A. There is no evidence of "global warming" as espoused by morons like Al Gore;
B. Earthquakes are caused bu seismic shifts in the earth, not air temperature.
2006-10-01 10:13:13 · answer #7 · answered by nowallp 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Earthquakes occurs only in countries that have hot spring water. Italy. Japan. etc. No hot spring, no earthquake. For example, England has no hot spring and will never have an earthquake.
2006-10-01 10:12:50 · answer #8 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry, cliamte has no impact in the tectnoic forces that make and shape our world
2006-10-07 14:16:46 · answer #9 · answered by prof. Jack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah! a great possibility...
2006-10-08 00:41:51 · answer #10 · answered by candy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋