"Curt Fischer" <tentrillion@gmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote ...
> Paul Blay wrote:
>> "Curt Fischer" <tentrillion@gmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote ...
>>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>>> "Curt Fischer" wrote ...
>>>>> Isn't the real culprit LIQUID HOT MAGMA?
>>>>
>>>> We're in trouble then.  It's a little known fact that 100% of the 
>>>> Earth's surface is above LIQUID HOT MAGMA.
>>>
>>> I think I am starting to get your logic.  Let me try a new one: Gravity
>>> causes earthquakes.  
>> 
>> Is slightly more silly than liquid hot magma causes Earthquakes - but not
>> much.
> 
> What does cause earthquakes in the opinion of Paul Blay then?  

In the spirit of previous answers on this bit of the sub-thread COLD 
DARK ROCK.

> Be sure to name conditions that are not only sufficient but necessary.

Oh, in which case "The physics of this universe acting on the geology of 
this world."