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Manmade activities can trigger earthquakes in three main ways: 1) Changing water levels and loads in reservoirs behind dams during filling has caused hundreds of small quakes near dams like Hoover Dam. 2) Injecting large volumes of liquid deep underground, like toxic waste or CO2, increases underground pressure and stresses on rocks and can cause quakes. 3) Extracting large amounts of resources like coal, water, oil and gas changes underground masses and stresses and is linked to over 50% of recorded human
- Author
- Arundhathy Krishna
- Language
- EN