Judith,
A fascinating area of study is speed and time.
For example:
If the crust under the ocean took a month to shove 10 meters on a fault line, then the oceans would dissipate that change as the process is slow. But when it is instantaneous, the oceans cannot dissipate the water volume at that point over time and is transfered ocean energy.
The flexibility of ocean elasticity is interesting with the pressure added with depth. Theoretically it is possible to transport pressurized energy to the surface BUT the elasticity of the ocean has to be broken for that to be achieved.