ApocaDocs: Melting Ice Sheets Can Cause Earthquakes, Study Finds

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Posted Sat Mar 15 2008: from National Geographic News:


	Melting Ice Sheets Can Cause Earthquakes, Study Finds http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1205602692 "As ice sheets melt, they can release pent-up energy and trigger massive earthquakes, according to new study. Global warming may already be triggering such earthquakes and may cause more in the future as ice continues to melt worldwide, the researchers say....Now a new study, the first to use sophisticated computer models to simulate how ice sheets would affect the crust in the region, bolsters this scenario. The study showed that earthquakes are "suppressed in presence of the ice and promoted during melting of the ice," said study leader Andrea Hampel of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

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The ApocaDocs say:

It's kinda sweet, ain't it, how these massive natural -- and not so natural -- disasters as so intimately connected?