Maxwell – I responded to a comment by Hunter addressed to me. Peter – about half of the sea level rise has been eustatic, and so about 15 cm over the past hundred years has increased the weight that started to climb since the last glacial maximum. The referenced article provides good reason to think that the stress has made the faults more vulnerable during times of higher sea level. The question is to what extent a fault under stress will be triggered into a slip by a small extra push. We don’t know, but the principle of a small change triggering a large effect is valid, even though it may turn out to be insignificant in this case. My suggestion is to wait for more data before deciding anything.
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