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by cromwellian 1061 days ago
Hot take: If the Earth's core is Iron-Nickel, is it an Invar, and therefore, there's an effect too reduce earthquakes from expansion from heat movement being lower, or is the pressure alone enough to counteract that?
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The core of the earth changes temperature very slowly. So any effect is probably pretty minimal.

I would guess that comparatively huge thermal characteristics from the churning and moving of the crust and mantle due to plate tectonics probably overshadows this.

The core of the Earth is also far beyond the temperature/pressure at which this invar effect occurs.