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| Jeff B. |
 Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:03 am |
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.... by triggering many controlled (*) tremors ?
.... by detonating a small nuclear device, by injecting high pressure
water deep in the underground,... ?
a lot of average earthquakes (to release the accumulating stress)
rather than a big one.
has it been envisionned ?
Jeff
(*) controlled in magnitude & volume, at points in the underground
carefully selected using numerical simulations. |
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| Belba Grubb |
| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:30 pm |
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Human nature checks in....
On Jan 22, 12:16 pm, "Jeff B." <jeffba...@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Would we know how to trigger and control earthquakes of magnitude say
between 4 and 5 ?
Good question, along with its corollary: if we knew how, would we be
able to prevent the process from being misused as a weapon or for
terrorism or just plain old blackmail?
Quote: Would two or tree 5 magnitude tremors each day over a few a large
volume (say a radius of hundreds miles, at different depth) suffice to
lower from 7 to 5, or from 8 to 6 in magnitude scale ? Wonder if it is
technically conceivable... how would people be affected in their daily
life by these artificial tremors ?
And how many of those affected would be able to resist the temptation
to call a lawyer if so much as 1 water glass was broken during a small
artificial tremor, even if that release of energy *possibly* saved
their whole neighborhood from a destructive earthquake some time in
the future?
Barb
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice
maintain - the equality of all men.
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