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Any validity to something my coworker said to me today about natural disasters?

I'm in Southern California, and a coworker just told me that she thinks that the reason for the recent heat wave here is due to the earthquake in Northern California. To quote her, "the movement of the earth is causing heat and magnetic waves to throw the forces of the universe off balance or something."

Now I don't give much credence to the latter part of her statement because she meant it in that spiritual sense, and thinks that the universe speaks to her, but I don't know enough about earthquakes and the causes of heat waves to conclude that the two couldn't possibly be related. I read that heat waves are caused by high pressure forming and staying at high altitudes, but didn't really see anything about what causes this high pressure.

I don't really think she's right, but like I said, I don't know much about the topic either, so I don't want to dismiss the idea right away. I mean, if earthquakes in the ocean can cause Tsunami's then I should at least try to find out if it can also cause high pressure buildup above an affected area.

A few factors I considered was:

1) How come a random heat wave (or some other weather pattern) doesn't randomly strike every time there is an earthquake, then? If it does, wouldn't it make more sense if the resulting weather pattern formed at/near the epicenter of the earthquake?

2) If the earthquake occurred in Northern CA, can its affects reach/influence weather patterns in Southern CA?

3) How would the friction of tectonic plate movement in N CA be transferred to S CA, especially if we didn't feel an earthquake?

Am I missing some connection here between the two?

Any responses would be immensely helpful and much appreciated. Thank you.
gpt
Simple, there is no correlation between weather and earthquakes. That means both are independent of each other. Earthquakes happen miles beneath the surface, and weather above it.  

As for the causes, plate tectonics cause earthquakes.  Atmospheric high and low pressure systems cause heatwaves/storms. 

Tell your co-worker to read up about real science and ignore pseudo-scientific crap.