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Originally Posted by rsx  What are the consequences of the frequency of these earthquakes?
Is it beneficial to alleviate pressure from plates? Or could this be seen as a sign for a more significant quake to hit? |
I'm taking some geology in university and this question has been asked multiple times over three years. Every professor has said it has little impact in either direction; there would need to be many thousands of quakes to relieve a noticeable amount of stress on the subduction zone, but these also aren't a warning sign that the big one is coming necessarily.
The only thing that's been said by Canadian geologists is that the big one has a ~5% chance of happening in the next 50 - 100 years.
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