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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This caught my attention because thinking in terms of the earth's mantle and plates I thought not, but then wondered if position in the orbit (nearer to sun or farther) or other factors could actually create a season. And it turns out that there is one in the Himalayas having to do with the end of monsoon season and the pressure of accumulated water (consider things like Oklahoma's fracking-caused earthquakes, or how glaciers if big enough exert pressure on land masses).

California probably doesn't undergo the extremes of water--we're talking the Ganges, with probably much more massive amounts of water, the specific geology of the region--but anyway earthquake seasons can occur.

https://www.livescience.com/4800-reason-earthquake-season-revealed.html[/quote]

I was googling the Ring of Fire to see if there was a season for that but it seems like volcanoes and quake activity are omni-present somewhere on the ring year-round. The giant quake that triggered the 2004 tsunami which killed 200,000+ people in Eastern Asia was in December...[/quote]

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