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How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
« on: October 20, 2017, 12:31:14 pm »
 How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake

Humans may be to blame for California’s second-largest 20th century earthquake, and a team of seismologists has now proposed how that could have happened.


By Lucas Joel 24 hours ago

A Los Angeles Times article published on 11 June 1952 tells of a successful new oil well at Wheeler Ridge in Kern County in California. The well operated for 98 days, but then, on 21 July at 4:52 a.m. local time, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake let loose beneath the well along the White Wolf fault. It was the second-largest earthquake in California in the 20th century, and it killed 12 people. A team of seismologists, reporting new research, thinks the oil drilling triggered the event. The work is the first to give a detailed explanation for how industrial activity could cause such a big earthquake, the researchers said.

https://eos.org/articles/how-to-trigger-a-massive-earthquake

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Re: How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2017, 12:58:46 pm »
As the article states, if it is caused by the activity, it releases the energy early, before the natural energy builds to a greater earthquake.
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Re: How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2017, 12:59:38 pm »
As the article states, if it is caused by the activity, it releases the energy early, before the natural energy builds to a greater earthquake.

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Re: How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2017, 01:13:22 pm »
Make Michael Moore take up jogging?