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Not really.

However, in regions that were covered by ice sheets in the last ice age, there have been very small earthquakes that some experts blamed on the Earth's crust there still rising. The Earth's crust floats on the deeper, semi-molten layers. The ice age glaciers added weight to the crust, pushing it deeper. Then the glaciers went away. Even now, the crust is still rebounding from that weight having been removed. As it moves upward, small earthquakes can occur from time to time.

Theoretically, if you melted all the remaining glaciers the land beneath them would experience similar effects. In my opinion that's the least of our worries, though.

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