To the geologists out there.... could an earthquake

it doesn't matter, the world is coming to an end shortly

what sort of thing.. i took a coastal morphodynmaic class (mostly grad students) when I was at LSU.. had a guest speaker, a geologist from BP do a presentation about tectonics as it relates to drilling in the gulf and the difficulties of deep water drilling.. i remember that the gulf is more tectonically active than you would think and that it creates a problem w/ landslides and sediment entrainment.. wish i could remeber that far back, 3 or 4 years ago, or hear that presentation again

Not really. There are platform in the Eugene Island area that have multiple boat landing on them because of subsidence. They've sunk so far the boat landing submerged and antoher had to be added. No Tsunamis nor earthquakes created.

Don't believe the hype.

Seems unlikely in the Gulf deepwater areas. Sediment deformation is very common, but the failure is usually more small scale at the seafloor, and more plastic like than brittle.

Sediment flows are common, but even small earthquakes just don't have a chance to roll around any larger rocks, they just aren't out there in the Gulf Mex. I do believe that salt flows have been documented to shear casings of producing wells, but this is under the seafloor in the subsurface.

I suppose a small offshore earthquake in Southern California, in the right area could cause a sediment flow including some boulder size material that might funnel the stuff toward the riser of a producing or drilling well and damage/crack it. Just a guess.