Climate Change

Over recent years, natural disasters have been appearing more frequently
throughout the globe; phenomena such as typhoons, super storms, earthquakes
and tsunamis have appeared not only more frequent, also in places that these
events did not happen naturally.
To narrow the topic, we will focus primarily on earthquakes because they are
the most devastating disasters because they can be given any place in the world
and they can easily destroy the entire infrastructure of a developed city in just a
few minutes. In addition to the relationship with other meteorological phenomena
on earth.
Earthquakes
are

seismic

movements greater
than

normal

intensity, we know
that they

are not

something

that

is

new nowadays , it is
a

natural

phenomenon on our
planet but while the number of earthquakes has been variable over the passing
years, the intensity of these has increased considerably in just the last fifteen
years.
This changing pattern is also related to the industrial revolution, because is
from this point that the man began incrementing pollution to extraordinary levels
causing a phenomenon known as global warming.

Greenhouse gases such

as water vapor, carbon
dioxide,

methane

and

nitrogen

dioxide

are

responsible

for

maintaining life, because

these gases regulate the
temperature to keep it
stable for living beings. These gases works for that the heat of solar radiation
received from the sun remains bouncing between the atmosphere and the crust.
But because man has changed the amount of these gases, such as
increased methane, has changed the atmospheric balance causing global
temperatures to rise.
Rising global temperatures cause the melting of the poles, this has
happened really quickly, because only in the past fifty years has lost much of its
entirety. The melting causes sea levels to rise but mainly affects ocean currents.
Sea currents operate from a temperature change; hot water from the surface
goes toward the poles causing its temperature down and sink; this cold water going
below the surface goes to Ecuador which increases its temperature and returns to
the surface. The temperature at this point generates sufficient energy to keep the
sea in a constant cyclical movement.
In addition to temperature, another factor is changing salinity, because while
the poles are melting, desalination occurs because the polar ice is composed
mainly of fresh water. This also changes the motion of the sea because fresh water
is less dense than salt water, so salt water to sink causing that currents become
much slower and causing that the intra-tropical zone begins to increase its
temperature.

It is in this place where occurs

another phenomenon known as "El Nio",
which is the key to the relationship of the
changes made by the man with the
increase of earthquakes in the world.

This weather phenomenon is a change in movement patterns in ocean

currents in the area, causing the warm waters move eastward causing rainfall while
in the West arrive droughts. Alongside this process also has a cold phase called
"La nia", which is the opposite process but increasing the frequency of rainfall in
the east.
This is a natural process, as it has always existed, but due to human
intervention, have become increasingly aggressive phases of this phenomenon;
the key or relationship of the above phenomena and earthquakes is the amount of
rainfall and its intensity.
According to a study by the University of Miami, the relationship between
storms and earthquakes is not only the movement of wter, is erosion because
this moves the plates in a slow process. This process has been observed and
determined that in places where there were severe storms in a aproximad between
2 and 5 years period earthquakes happening more intense than normal.
Finally we can answer sure and specifically that changing cycles from "El
nio y la nia " coupled global climate change is related to the increase of the
largest earthquakes up to 6 degrees on the Richter through the world.

References:

http://nationalgeographic.es/noticias/medio-ambiente/111215-rainfallhurricanes-typhoons-earthquakes-science-ear
http://www.alertatierra.com/CambC_efectos.htm
http://www.sismo24.cl/500sismos/720sisnumerosano.html
http://www.iris.edu/hq/files/programs/epo/inclass/onepagers/ES_no3.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDJUPk6iVRQ
Course Cambio climtico y uso de energa by Laura del Carmen
Cuevas.