Well, perhaps all the Warmists in the big cities should have stopped using fossil fuels, gave up meat for bugs, and stopped using so much electricity. Still your fault
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?
Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California around 10,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour.
California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to the mid-19th-century gold rush that saw its population explode in just four years, from 14,000 to a quarter of a million.
But if you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit and felt the ground move beneath your feet, you’ll probably agree that ‘the Earthquake State’ is a far better fit.
None of this should be a surprise given that it hosts the San Andreas Fault, where two of the world’s great tectonic plates – the North American plate to the east and the Pacific plate to the west – meet.
So, the People’s Republic Of California is an earthquake zone, right? Totally natural
When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.
For decades, I’ve been researching how the climate can drive deadly geological phenomena, like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, and the evidence is absolutely clear. (snip)
As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.
As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California. (snip)
The big worry isn’t, as in the Alps, that water will trigger swarms of little quakes, but that the infiltration of water into a fault that’s teetering on the edge of rupturing will set off the ‘big one’.
A seismologist colleague of mine is fond of warning that all that’s needed to trigger a major earthquake at a fault that’s ‘locked and loaded’ is the pressure of a handshake.
Good grief. Earthquakes happen, always have. Was the big 1906 earthquake Your Fault? How much “melting glacier” water is leaking into the San Andreas, which really runs not close to the mountains in California? This is pretty much doomsday cultists manufacturing the end point and then creating “data” to prove it, the very reverse of science. It’s basically “how do we blame earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on ‘climate change’? We’ll say Mankind is at fault then create the data to back it up.”
We know that it is all Donald Trump’s fault. And George Bush’s fault before him!
How much after January 20, 2029 will it be Mr Trump’s fault? I suppose that will depend on whether he is succeeded by a Republican or a Democrat. If the next President is J D Vance, much will quickly become his fault, where, if we get a [shudder!] Democrat in office, it will remain Mr Trump’s fault for as long as a Democrat is in the White House.
Just more whining from Science-Denier william and his hapless reader/commenters.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume 666, 15 September 2025, 119372
Climate-change-induced seismicity: The recent onset of seasonal microseismicity at the Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc Massif, France/Italy
• We analyzed 15 years of seismic activity in the Grandes Jorasses using high-precision, template-matching-enhanced catalogs.
• Our research links increased annual seismicity in the Grandes Jorasses since 2015 to snow and glacier meltwater infiltration.
• We provide first observational evidence that cryosphere retreat driven by climate change can increase alpine seismic hazards.
• Our findings underline the urgency of evaluating the impact of climate change on seismic risk in alpine and arctic areas.
Consequently, our research indicates climate change can significantly increase the local seismic hazard in alpine regions. This phenomenon may also occur in other glaciated areas worldwide. As a result, there is a need to better quantify the associated seismic risk for affected alpine communities.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25001712?via%3Dihub
Fat Jeff,
To think a tax that would destroy western civilization would stop all that despite the fact Asian nations would not be required to reduce carbon. Amazing.
Ugly david McQuack,
The authors did not discuss taxes, but did discuss their findings that the redistribution of surface water appears to increase local seismic activity.
Ignoring the evidence because you object to potential solutions is dishonest and lazy.
“appears to” is not evidence.
Scientific weasel words which means we cannot prove it.
Rimjob, please.
Save the insults and learn something. .
You are the only commenter here dumber than david McQuack.
AI says! – The term “scientific proof” is a misconception; science does not offer absolute proof, as all knowledge is tentative and subject to revision based on new evidence. Instead of proof, science relies on empirical evidence gathered through the scientific method to support hypotheses and theories. This evidence is built through repeated, verifiable experimentation and observation, and a hypothesis becomes a widely accepted theory only when it is supported by a vast amount of consistent evidence and has not been falsified.
Learn something! But outside of church.
Dumas, please!
Do you have proof of God?
How about proof that the boats bombed in the Gulf of Mexico all contained fentanyl or cocaine?
How about proof that all those grabbed by ICE are here “illegally”?
So Rimjob, are you stupid?
You keep asking the same stupid questions.
Dumas, please!
Do you have proof of God? is an honest question. How about, What is your evidence that God exists?
Deniers like you and others demand PROOF that CO2 is causing global warming, yet don’t have even the tiniest shred of evidence to support your most important and valuable belief!!
Your interest in scientific evidence is VERY selective and driven by your beliefs.
Our Earth is continuously forming oil and natural gas! That’s a fact – JACK! Now if you DON’T extract it the pressure builds up! When the pressure gets to a certain point SOMETHING is going to happen! I guess they’ll find out!
Interesting hypothesis! Athough dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 MILLION years maybe they were exterminated by giant gas and oil explosions rather than from the Chicxulub Impactor asteroid some 66 MIILLION years ago!
Once the dinoasaurs were gone, humans appeared (some 65.7 MILLION years later), and the rest is history!!
So they can’t point to any increase in the frequency of earthquakes worldwide, and the last I heard they were blaming them on fracking…
“It can increase…”. Can, meaning it hasn’t happened
You should review the article.
One of their recommendations was:
• Our findings underline the urgency of evaluating the impact of climate change on seismic risk in alpine and arctic areas.
Their point was that the changes were local.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25001712?via%3Dihub
Human activities, including underground fluid injection activities, may cause earthquakes (known as induced earthquakes). Underground fluid injection activities, such as hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas production, enhanced oil and gas recovery wells, and wastewater disposal wells, have increased in the central and eastern United States since about 2008, in part due to advancements in horizontal drilling. The number of earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the same region increased from 2009 to 2015, and these earthquakes are correlated in space and time with injection activities. For example, over 1,000 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater occurred in the central and eastern United States in 2015 (more than the annual historic rate of magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes of less than 25). Disposal wells induced the largest earthquake recorded in Oklahoma, a magnitude 5.8, in 2016, causing property damage and lawsuits.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47386#:~:text=Human%20activities%2C%20including%20underground%20fluid,and%20time%20with%20injection%20activities.
“Is not!!!”, is not a valid repsonse! We get it. It’s easy to just deny the scientific findings if they conflict with beliefs.
And what do “underground fluid injection activities such as hydraulic fracturing, enhanced oil and gas recovery wells and wastewater disposal wells” have to do with “climate change”? Besides nothing