Oil is slippery, you take it out of the group more friction LESS earthquakes!
I’ll match my sciencematicians semilogistics with them anytime.
It is near Climax so I expect a gusher any minute now.
I’ll match my sciencematicians semilogistics with them anytime.
So you presume oil lubricates the earth? Therefore, you presume the earth relieves itself of stress buildup from tectonic action. Well, most of the crust is solid rock. The oil is locked up and not lubricating anything. When the stress finally increase to the point that the rock cant resist them, the rock mass slips along or under faults. Oil has nothing to do with this. Earthquakes happen. Politics happens. They are unrelated.
Now, maybe you are pointing at an answer. How close was this earthquake to the $billion oil spill in a tributary of the Kalamazoo River? They have finally gathered up most of this spill on the surface, but how much could have gone deep and lubricated an earthquake fault line? Incidentally, this $billion disaster that started in 2010 was caused by a 6 foot diameter Enbridge owned Canadian tar sands oil pipeline which leaked for 24 hours before discovery. From pictures I’ve seen it looks like there was a seam rupture at least 10 feet long. Actually, this link shows the rupture in the first line of photos: