[Right Wing Assault]

It is thought that water can act as a lubricant between rocks to let them slip sooner than they usually would. Injecting water deep underground has been suspected as a factor in other quakes.

[Hardastarboard]

Man caused earthquakes. What will the Communist ruling elite think of next?

[neverdem]

Signature of antimatter detected in lightning

Experts Criticize Nanoparticle Study

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[xJones]

The mother of all damns that have never have been built is the Three Gorges Dam in China. It's right on a major fault zone and damming up the Yangtze River.

[happygrl]

One of the few large earthquakes in Central Africa was right after Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, was filled.

There was a huge reservoir built in Riverside County, CA a decade ago near the San Jacinto fault. Among the assumptions was that it might trigger a mid-size quake when filled.

So far, so good, but it might still happen.

[SunkenCiv]

Seismologists knew that several hundred million tons of water had filled the reservoir in the preceding few years and that either the water itself or its weight might have weakened a nearby fault and unleashed the quake.

Weird that this human activity (building a reservoir) caused a quake, considering that the reservoir didn't exist when all the other deadly quakes hit the same region throughout recorded Chinese history. :') Thanks neverdem.

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