[OBAMA IS A LIZARD]

From what I know, earthquakes are caused by the shifting of tectonic plates, which cannot happen without a round model. How does the flat earth explain this?

[devils advocate]

Guess they have tectonic plates on flat earth too?!

[OBAMA IS A LIZARD]

Oh well. 

[fl4t_3rth_4_live]

Guess they have tectonic plates on flat earth too?!

So you are just gonna guess?

[OBAMA IS A LIZARD]

Guess they have tectonic plates on flat earth too?!

So you are just gonna guess?

Well this topic is more about seeing how Flat earthers would explain how earthquakes work. Round earthers already have an explanation, and seeing how our explanation is associated with the core of the earth, I was curious on how Flat earthers would explain.

So until a flat earther joins the topic and explains, we can only really guess.

[Shifter]

Why could you not have movement under the earth if it were flat?

Imagine a large swimming pool with the surface of the water being where we live

Under the water, you have currents and disturbances which translate to the surface. Perhaps something at the bottom or underside of the disc is driving the tectonic plates.

The furthest we have ever dug a hole is just over 12km. We know earth quakes occur at depths much lower than this. You cant say for sure you know what's going on down there... I cant see, flat or round why it would make a difference anyway... This idea or argument about earthquakes not being able to happen on a flat earth is utterly preposterous.

[OBAMA IS A LIZARD]

Why could you not have movement under the earth if it were flat?

Imagine a large swimming pool with the surface of the water being where we live

Under the water, you have currents and disturbances which translate to the surface. Perhaps something at the bottom or underside of the disc is driving the tectonic plates.

The furthest we have ever dug a hole is just over 12km. We know earth quakes occur at depths much lower than this. You cant say for sure you know what's going on down there... I cant see, flat or round why it would make a difference anyway... This idea or argument about earthquakes not being able to happen on a flat earth is utterly preposterous.

Yeah but tectonic plates move due to the heat released by the core of the earth, I'm asking how they would move on a flat earth model. This topic is fairly unnoticed on flat earth discussions, so I would like to see an actual explanation of how they would move.

[Shifter]

So why couldn't a flat earth have a super heated bottom layer?

Nobody is saying Volcanoes don't exist so we know there is a layer of magma. And the amount of pressure and stress many hundreds of km of rock would be under, well of course there will be heat and movement. I still don't see the correlation between earthquakes and the notion it could only be happen on a spherical earth.

A flat plane could just as well have movement and quakes as a spherical one.

[fl4t_3rth_4_live]

Guess they have tectonic plates on flat earth too?!

So you are just gonna guess?

Well this topic is more about seeing how Flat earthers would explain how earthquakes work. Round earthers already have an explanation, and seeing how our explanation is associated with the core of the earth, I was curious on how Flat earthers would explain.

So until a flat earther joins the topic and explains, we can only really guess.

They are the ones saying that the Earth isn't even round, so they should have an explanation for anything that "round earthers"  have