EARTHQUAKE!!

Earthquakes can occur anywhere on the planet, there's just a higher probability of them happening in certain areas due to fault lines. Something that doesn't affect if an earthquake is going to happen? Global warming.

Yeah, apparently there are some people out there who blame an increased number of earthquakes on global warming and the weather changing.

For those who don't know, the earth is covered in tectonic plates. There are 15 of them to be exact, 7 large ones and 8 smaller ones. These plates are constantly shifting due to the radioactive processes which occur at the planet's core. In layman's terms, when the hot and gooey magma inside the Earth bubbles and boils, it moves the big rocks around. An earthquake occurs when these plates then interact with one another, either by crashing into each other and forming hills/mountains or when they scratch against each other in passing.

I guess I can see why some people may think that the rising temperatures are causing more earthquakes. They probably go off the logic that a hotter atmospheric temperature means a hotter core temperature and therefore more radioactivity and more earthquakes.

In reality, the core temperature of the planet can impact the atmospheric temperatures but not vice versa.

The real question here though; if an earthquake is tectonic plates moving around and any planet can have tectonic plates, then are they still called earthquakes on other planets? Are they Marsquakes? Jupiterquakes?