If the tectonic plates are moving at a certain level of pressure against each other, because of expected flows of magma, in such a way that we can predict how the continents are going to move for millions of years in the future, wouldn't it be possible to eventually correct for that movement and build ratchets or some form of expected notches for the plates to click along, so as to make the plates move like gears in a clock and nearly nullify massive unpredictable earthquakes in the future? You know, by spreading out the movement such that it's just a low buzz of movement people can barely feel, or even lower. Obviously, we don't have the technology right now, but is there a pathway to that that's contemplatable? Could we turn our land plates into ratcheting plates that minimized quakes at safe regular releases of pressure?

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