Climate change and quakes: a link?

Montreal Gazette: Severe earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and most recently Japan have raised the question of whether the world's tectonic plates are becoming more active and if so what is the cause. Some scientists theorize that the sudden melting of glaciers due to man-made climate change is lightening the load on the Earth, allowing its mantle to rebound upward, causing the plates to become unstuck. These scientists point to the historical increase in volcanic and earthquake activity that occurred about 12,000......

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