Are we using up the EARTHS natural LUBRICANT? Oil, as far as EARTHQUAKES are concerned?

I'm serious, Do you think REMOVING so much OIL from the EARTH causes or has ANYTHING to do with MORE frequent, LARGER EARTHQUAKES.


( I should research this myself...THANK YOU for answering).


DJAre we using up the EARTHS natural LUBRICANT? Oil, as far as EARTHQUAKES are concerned?
Yes and no, no on the lubrication thing, yes on movement of large volumes of weight around on the crust, such as the ice sheets during the ice age compressed the crust causing fractures like the New Madrid fault, and even now as they retreat minor quakes are being triggered, or contruction of large reservoirs. It's harder to say what in the cycle of the earth is ';more frrequent activity'; as we have had the ability to measure them only a relatively short time and still discovering faultlines (the USGS earthquake hazards website has a map of all activity in the last week). I don't subscribe to the theory that man has as much impact on the earth as some think, it's a complex machine, along with the moon that tugs on the lopsided gooey mass that wobbles around the center and some theorize triggers quakes when closest in orbit during a solar eclipse.Are we using up the EARTHS natural LUBRICANT? Oil, as far as EARTHQUAKES are concerned?
Removing oil has nothing to do with earthquakes or lubrication.





If it lubricated that would mean it was in the crack between the plates or edges of the fault. Then is would leak away! Oil is found trapped in pockets under rock.





The weight of the oil removed is very little. In most wells now a days water is added to force more oil up so there is likely to be a slight increase in weight
Good question. Some one has answered that there is no such thing. That may be wrong. Geologists are finding out weird stuff about our Earth all the time. Your question makes a lot of sense. Go research this, get back to us.
EARTHS natural LUBRICANT?


sorry there is no such thing
that doesnt make any sense, earthquakes happen becuase of plate shifts, movements of crust or whatever. oil is simply a natural resource created from decompsition and pressure.