Add a super moon gravity increase and you get an extra tug on those faults.

we had discussion in this vein in this parish some time ago and my contention (cribbed from the New Scientist) was poo-pooed without reference to research. I asked my Brother-in-Law, a PhD in Marine Geology, and he reckoned the idea had been around for years and did not have much traction.

Call me an engineer but - if you put two surfaces together and tried to move one, you get friction. If you inject vibration the friction is less.

Now translate that to the global scale - time and space - and you have precisely the same situation. Moon nearer, more vibration. More probability.

I was being serious, but I like the humo(u)r none the less. Now tell me, how big is the dumpster gonna be when they dig up the San Andreas?
And does Trump actually know something we don't?