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Originally Posted by loreen
I don't think so (water pressure is minimal compared to lithostatic pressure). Depends on the faults tought, perhaps the superficial ones would be affected.
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you would be wrong! the ocean crust is a lot thinner, therefore less stable, and the increased pressure of say, all the melt water running into the ocean, would produce subduction earthquakes based solely on the idea of 'ballast'
you can see examples of this, starting from scientists warning about increased water weight seen by the three gorges dam, and another, chinese, dam that cause a lot of damage from my understanding
there was studies 'started', from my understanding, around 07 but not so sure what happened to those.. chinese quake hit in 08 and that's a direct example of what i am talking about