On: Fluid Injection's Role in Man-Made Earthquakes Revealed

[protomyth]

> It's worth asking if this could be used to deliberately set off minor earthquakes that relieve stress in such a way as to prevent larger ones.

BBC Radio on SirusXM (cannot find the link) had someone talking about that exact question. He said that in theory you could relive the pressure and let the fault slide without causing a real earthquake, but their is no way anyone is going to try it because of the liability.

[InclinedPlane → protomyth]

There are tons of quake-prone faults that are well outside of even sparsely populated areas.

[protomyth → InclinedPlane]

I'm guessing that permission to pump a lot of fluid into a fault line with the intention of sliding two giant land masses anywhere in the world is going to be hard to come by.