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Ridley_Himself t1_jdeglys wrote

Reply to comment by CrustalTrudger in With the extraordinary amount of precipitation that has fallen on California, would that weight have any effect on the tectonic plates/fault lines and could it cause a major earthquake? by barfly2780

Loads aside, I’d heard of pore fluid pressure from heavy precipitation as a possible mechanism for making earthquakes more likely.

I might have expected increased loading to increase earthquakes in areas of normal faulting. All the locations you mentioned on that subject are at convergent boundaries.

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