Quakes in Chile and Okinawa

[La Comédie Noire]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540289.stm

http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1224664&SMap=1

Do you think they are connected? Or do you think it's the media being earth quake crazy?

[Tifosi]

Well they are both on the Pacific Plate so they may be connected.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Pacific_Plate_map-fr.png

[Revy]

I read that climate change (yes, you heard that right) can cause earthquakes. Something to do with the ice melting, and the earth becoming more unstable as a result.

[Revolutionary Pseudonym]

I read that climate change (yes, you heard that right) can cause earthquakes. Something to do with the ice melting, and the earth becoming more unstable as a result.
Do you have a source?
I cannot understand how ice melting would have any effect on earthquakes.
The most common form of eathquakes occur due to a build up in friction from tension between the tectonic plates and ice melting would not affect this.

[Glenn Beck]

Well they are both on the Pacific Plate so they may be connected.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Pacific_Plate_map-fr.png

Actually Chile is on the boundary between the South American plate and the Nazca plate. They could still be connected because the Pacific plate and the Nazca plate share a divergent boundary. As the Pacific plate moves westward, away from the Nazca, it converges with the plates towards the west. So the two earthquakes could still be connected.

[Revy]

Do you have a source?
I cannot understand how ice melting would have any effect on earthquakes.
The most common form of eathquakes occur due to a build up in friction from tension between the tectonic plates and ice melting would not affect this.

here's a link. (http://www.climateemergency.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=110)