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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is any of this due to our raping the environment there mining for energy? 
Mining, pipelines, fracking? Have humans ruined another beautiful natural environment with greed? [/quote]

Yea - fracking!! 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/large-scale-fracking-comes-to-the-arctic-in-a-new-alaska-oil-boom-75683[/quote]

Stop spreading misinformation.

Alaska is on the convergence of 3 major plates.

Fracking is not responsible for this earthquake. Plate tectonics are.[/quote]

Nice deflection attempt, but there is absolutely no denying that soaring temperatures have caused a dramatic increase in earthquake actively all over the world as the planet itself has started to expand due to the increased heat.

Have you ever baked a loaf of bread in an oven? Notice how it swells as it gets hotter? That's what our entire planet is doing. It's swelling and expanding from the heat. And that causes earthquakes. [/quote]

Quick making up things.

The plates move and shift.

Devastating earthquakes happen on these fault lines throughout history.

Powerful earthquakes along fault lines have not increased.  This is a fact.  The plates are constantly moving, shifting, and slipping. How do you think we got mountain ranges and canyons?

We are past due for a major earthquake in California.  We are also very past due a major earthquake in southern Missouri near Arkansas along the New Madrid Fault.  When it is meant to happen, it will happen.

The warming of our atmosphere does not cause earthquakes.[/quote]

Seismologist here.  I would no say we are past due.  A better way to look at it is an earthquake can occur at any time in CA, MO, AK, OR, WA and even VA.  Now, the size might differ.  The thing about earthquakes is they are not inherently dangerous.  It is the building response that is the problem.  If the building survive, people will be fine.  If they collapse (e.g., Haiti), it is bad.[/quote]

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