Reply #156: Not a record at all.

[AtheistCrusader]

It's in the top five of instrumented and recorded human history. But not a record.

Global warming is more likely a greater threat via access to fresh water, fertile land and food. If it was ever included in that list, and was scrubbed, it was likely scrubbed as a mistake.

Whether it can impact earthquakes is another matter altogether. One way earthquakes can be triggered is via fault lubrication. Lets say you melt all the glaciers in the US, and the water is gone. You may actually have a net decrease in earthquakes because water tables will drop and fault lubrication will be reduced. Melting ice in antarctica might relieve pressure on a plate that might increase, or possibly decrease earthquakes.

If redistributing loads on a plate via dams and other means via human engineering is altering earthquakes, it is likely only shifting them around or making them come sooner or later. We do not drive the processes that build up strain in the earth's crust. It's been there since before humans evolved, and it will be there after we are gone.