Fracking works by penetrating rock with pressurized water and having oil come out...

You're theory also fails to account for the refraction of earthquake's vibrations through different layers of the Earth's crust, mantle, and outer core.

Finally, how would you explain Moonquakes?

Earthquakes being caused by plate tectonics makes much more sense.

It explains the wierd lights seen during earthquakes.

No it doesn't.

Salty water conducts electrcity and can be influenced by magnets, so the magnetic field of the earth could cause the water to flow in different directions. This could be the driver of continental plate drift and earthquakes.

Then we'd have found intense magnetic disturbances in association with earthquakes. Intense enough to pull at the water in your flesh.

Finally, most damning: What the fuck are volcanoes then and how do you explain the ocean subduction zones, the ring of fire, and the rift valleys, the magnetic dating that supports new crust growth in layers from the rifts with the most ancient crust at subduction zones, and mountains where plates collide or subduct (without exception).

You just have nothing but highschool science and your imagination.

Not even high school science this is just plain ignorance

I didn't want to say elementary 4th grade science...

You took this really seriously.

I studied geography, I hate when people confuse it with geology.

I hate when people confuse it with geology.

Rightly so. I hate it when people make junk posts like OP did.

But us geologists like your geography, gives us some easy classes to take that count as credits for our major.

So do we anthropologists.

At least you aren't an archaeologist and cause children to think you study dinosaurs. Common problem at my school's summer programs for kids.

According to mainstream geography

Geography is maps. Geology is rocks.

maps and colouring

Actually, geology is maps and coloring as well.

Also drinking and trying to figure out why the fuck this andesite looks like sandstone.

No, that's still geography actually. Putting shit on a map is always geography but when the design elements are the focus it's cartography.

Is a map of the subsurface still geography? Like a rock properties map or an isopach map?

I've never thought much about the line between geology and geography.

Well, breaking down the Latin... Ge/geo is earth. Ology/ logy is "study of" and graphy is typically draw or write. So any drawing of the earth or piece of it could probably be considered geography.

It's a map, so, yes.

If you made a chart with no geospatial aspects then it wouldn't be.

Geologists use geographical techniques to help them understand geology. It doesn't mean it is at all geology to create a map with geological features as the main subject.

Geography is maps. Geology is rocks.

Cartography is maps. Physical Geography can be tectonic plates. Geology is rocks.

Without geography there is nothing to map. Geography is about geospatial data.

Cartography is the techniques for representing geospatial data.

For instance, consider that you can't draw maps without a projection system and that the projection system is geography, not cartography.

My point is that if it can be mapped it is geography - how 2 map gud is cartography.

Spot on!

Physical geography is very much about plate tectonics...

Spatial data is spatial data.

There is absolutely zero merit to this post

Okay, interesting theory. Now please provide a working model for your hypothesis and experimental evidence to back it up.

magneto-electric

Ooh word obfuscation! Le me try...

Sphero-lith

Dynamo-thermics

Strat-crossification

Strat-crossification is now my favorite word, replacing "fossilologist"

Oh yeah, he means electro-magnetic 😂

Take a geology class. It seems like you've got an inquisitive mind but don't have the scientific framework to approach real questions in a serious and productive way. There are wild mysteries in earth science to solve. This just isn't one of them.

You know they sell yesteryear's geology textbooks on Amazon for super cheap, right? Might be a good idea to buy one of those.

You have got to be shitting me.

Man Reddit is going downhill fast today.

According to the consensus between professional Geologists earthquakes are caused by the convection of the different layers of earth. The mantle has large convection cells that plates sit on top of. If you want to see a sped up version of this then look no further than a lava lake. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjPGdXMMso

The crust that forms on the lava is hard rock, just like the plates. The magma below this thin crust is convecting as the hot magma rises, while the (relatively) cool magma falls. The plates of crust ride on top of this and collide, pull apart (which creates new crust), and moves transform (sideways) relative to the other plates.

There is always pressure on the plates to move, but they are really heavy jagged rocky things. If you have two pieces of coarse sandpaper and try to rub them against each other they will stick to each other until the force you're applying causes them to slip. What happens is that pieces of grit break off the paper and they slip. The same thing is what happens with earthquakes and plates. When large chunks of rock break from one of the plates and they slip, the resulting soundwaves travel through the ground, and these soundwaves are earthquakes.

i like this theory. I think it helps put a spotlight on fracking earthquakes. However i don't believe it explains all quakes. We know theres tectonic plates and that the continents are always moving and shifting and need to release energy. Obviously earthquakes are naturally acuring, but that doesn't mean we cant' have a hand in creating "artificial" quakes.

This isn't a theory, it's fecal matter someone shat out on the internet in text format.

HYPOTHESIS

One point I'd like to make is that these earthquakes are not happening away from fault lines, they're happening away from plate boundaries. You have faults within plates that can cause earthquakes, and former plate boundaries, known as passive margins, that can be reactivated and cause earthquakes. Also the rock that makes up the crust and mantle is more dense than saltwater so it would not be able to lie on top of it unless the entirety of the base of this layer is completely impermeable to water. And how might a completely impermeable outer shell form if not through differentiation based on density?

the earth is a crazy beast

You couldn't even quote the depth of the borehole correctly from the article you provided...

We generate earthquakes in the lab routinely.

Water does not need to be present. In fact water can impede their occurance.

The physics of earthquakes is exceptionally well understood.

Oh yeah, he means electro-magnetic 😂

Strat-crossification is now my favorite word, replacing "fossilologist"