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Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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What if earthquakes could not only be predicted, but manually triggered? Imagine the warfare implications.

It's much easier to cause something than to predict when it will happen naturally. As Alan Kay famously said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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What if earthquakes could not only be predicted, but manually triggered? Imagine the warfare implications.

Fracking does this on a small scale. I had an excellent geology professor, Donald Prothero, who argued manually triggering earthquakes could be a much better idea in high tension areas than waiting for them to happen organically, as we could prepare, and the triggered earthquakes wouldn’t be as bad as waiting for them to happen. But the paperwork would be a nightmare(:

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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What if earthquakes could not only be predicted, but manually triggered? Imagine the warfare implications.

Fracking does this on a small scale. I had an excellent geology professor, Donald Prothero, who argued manually triggering earthquakes could be a much better idea in high tension areas than waiting for them to happen organically, as we could prepare, and the triggered earthquakes wouldn’t be as bad as waiting for them to happen. But the paperwork would be a nightmare(:

Another issue is that an earthquake in one location can trigger an earthquake in another.
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