NASA - Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves

I would guess no because they are floating, but I am no expert in such things....

New Zealand is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world - it has since September been undergoing a normal amount of earthquakes and aftershocks.

Antartic ice is for the greatest part not floating ice but covering the continent of Antartica.

http://www.livescience.com/4970-antarctic-ice-glacial-earthquakes.html

Well I just found this. I'll keep researching. Thanks.

"Scientists have discovered their first icequake, if you will — a movement of a huge stream of ice in Antarctica that creates seismic waves, just like an earthquake, and can be felt hundreds of miles away.

Starting in 2001, Douglas Wiens of Washington University in St. Louis deployed seismographs around Antarctica, which detected seismic signals between that year and 2003.

"At first we didn't know where the waves were coming from, but eventually we were able to narrow down the source to the ice stream," Wiens said.

These ice-driven seismic waves had the force of a magnitude 7 earthquake, he said. That's equivalent to the strength of the 2005 Fukuoka earthquake, which killed only one, but displaced more than 3,000 people.

Glacial earthquakes

Prior to Wiens' discovery, detailed in the June 5 online issue of the journal Nature, scientists were unaware that ice streams radiated seismic waves (though they had detected them from glaciers, mainly near Greenland).

Ice streams are pieces of a bigger ice sheet that can move faster than the surrounding ice, periodically sliding over the underlying bedrock and eventually working their way to the coastline, where the ice can calve off to create icebergs.

The particular ice stream that created the seismic signals Wiens detected was 500 miles away from the seismographs that detected it. It is about 60 miles wide and half a mile thick. Each time it moves, it gives off seismic waves that are recorded at seismographs all around Antarctica, and even as far away as Australia. "

From what I have heard over the years is that as the ice melts the crust expand outward as the pressure from the loss of weight decreases. Scientists have noted that the lowering of the water levels in the Great Lakes is causing the land to rise. Since there are no plate zones near the Great Lakes, there have been no earthquakes there. However, there are many plates that meet in the South Pacific/Indian Ocean. So your theory maybe correct.

just a cursory look (oops schnookums did find some) at the connection reveals that scientists for the most part don't see a correlation, but that said; there is research regarding high and low pressure weather. I always wondered how much mass oil carries, how much the removal of oil from a liquid to a gas has changed the mass/weight of the planet which would change plate shifting. I think it is actually negligable but I wonder. We definitely know that fracking causes minny earthquakes which in turn can effect larger events. It is usualy minny earthquakes that pre sage a larger one. The study of earthquakes is pretty new, we still know so little about the plate movements and can only make hypothisis about what is under our feet.

I love this visual regarding ice raising the water levels globaly. If you put ice in a glass and then poar water over it, the ice melts and it doesn't over flow. if you fill a glass with water, and then add ice, the ice melts and it overflows. it isn't the ice that is over or in the water already, which is the larger part of antarctica,(may be wrong about this one) it is the ice on land that falls into the ocean that will melt and raise sea levels. That is why the arctic is more of an issue as there is more ice on land that can flow into the sea and raise levels. (minus some evaporation)

thouhgt it was the other way. any rate ice coming off the land is the bigger problem. so the shelve coming off wasn't a big deal as much as the land ice sitting behind it that can now flow. this story is years old what is the recent activity?

well shut my mouth! who knew!

Great post!
I would only add that an earthquake of about 5.0 did occur in lake Erie during the 1990s and rocked the U.N. tower in NYC while heads of state from around the world were in session.
Also, I lived in California for 10 years and Hawaii for 2 years and the only earthquake I've ever felt was in a house on lake Erie back in 1996.

I don't think so Jan ,but I'm not sure The ring of fire is especially active this season and also there are reports of tremors from the plates rubbing together off the coast of the Dominican where the shelf drops off...I don't think fracking is helping either, fracking has caused earthquakes in the UK and New Zealand as they amp up extractions.

well, looks like your right then ... :)

Thanks Ive felt them here in Cincinnati occasionally .

You bring up a good point. The loss of that added weight would see an expansion of crust. So this is not just about the melting due to climate change, but the residual effects upon the Earth as a whole.

I see what you're saying....not Ice Shelf loss, but glacial movements and loss of land-based ice.

Well, as the equatorial part of the planet becomes uninhabitable, people will be moving to the newly developed arctic/antarctic regions. The developers will become rich just for getting there first and planting their corporate flag. Countries will engage in wars for control of the Antarctic, and that area will become a hazmat site.

I thought of an initiative called Plant America and actually sent it to the White House. Heard nothing. But then I'm just a little citizen. Forests are indeed the answer as is sustainable agriculture. It is so frustrating to know that part of the solution to slowing this down is right under our noses and we refuse to see it out of greed, ideology or just plain apathy. How much has to happen?

Planting a trillion cannabis plants would be far more effective and effective in a few months - trees take years and even decades to mature sufficiently for CO2 absorption, whereas cannabis is the vegetable kingdom's most efficient CO2 absorber.

actually we are burning alot of our forests, I am sure someone somewhere is looking at the loss of trees. In my town they seem to hate trees, no one waters in this semi alpine desert right along the Arkansas, water is cheap still. And we have several contracted tree cutters who go around trying to make all the elms, ashes and walnuts look like poplars. The trees are dying at a tremendous rate, and if you plant a tree these stupid cutters come around and lop half the branches off. I have firs over 50-60 feet tall and they don't touch them. yet I have planted at least five more smaller trees to fill in. Plus one Christmas tree. I had an old neighbor who kept telling me to cut a tree near my house; "It will fall on your house" People are terrified of the trees during tornadoes in Oklahoma. Actually that tree did fall down in a windstorm and missed the house by inches.

I certainly agree that cannabis is a great carbon sucker but I suspect that it releases much of the carbon back into the atmosphere once it is harvested.
Bamboo might be the vegetable kingdom's most efficient CO2 absorber because it is the fastest growing plant on Earth and it converts carbon into silica in its leaves. People object to planting bamboo saying it is non-native and invasive but of the some 2,000 species of bamboo are half are native to the Americas and most are not "invasive." Arundinaria gigantea once grew from the Ohio Valley to Florida and Texas and was completely wiped out by settlers.
I also agree that most trees take decades to mature to the point they sequester much carbon but that is not true of the Sequoia -- the fastest growing conifer which grow from USDA zones 5 to 10. I planted 50 one-foot tall saplings in the past 5 years and many are pushing over 20 feet tall. I calculate that they are each sequestering about 50 pounds of CO2 out of the air every year (based upon studies of tree growth and sequestration). Plus they are magnificent and can live for thousands of years, being insect and fire resistant.

No doubt!