[hinckley buzzard]

There is a school of thought among serious geologists and meteorologists to the effect that major hurricanes may precipitate earthquakes. The sudden movement of billions of tons of water onto the edge of a plate is hypothesized to increase the risk of a slippage at the next fault line. It would be hard to prove definitively that Harvey set the plates to moving, but it would also explain the one-off character of the major quake.

[morphing libertarian]

would that apply to hurricanes in the atlantic and quakes off the pacific coast? or were the mexico quakes related to the atlantic plates?