Does the ocean height affect plate tectonics and earthquakes in anyway?
1) Sure, even one meter overall rising would make a major change in the distribution of weights. But on the other hand, ocean heights are changing all the time due to the tides and they don’t provoke earthquakes everyday. 2) “Within the geological literature, sea level is generally defined as the distance between the sea surface and sea bottom. (This convention contrasts with the concept of an absolute sea level whose position (the sea surface) is measured relative to some absolute datum, such as the center of Earth.) This definition of sea level is consistent with geological markers of past sea-level change (such as ancient shorelines, shells, and driftwood), which reflect changes in the height of either of the two bounding surfaces (i.e., an ancient shoreline can be exposed because the surface of the ocean dropped, or land uplifted, or a net combination of land and ocean height changes). During the time periods considered in this report, the dominant process responsible for such chan
