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Can Humans Cause Earthquakes? - Instant Egghead

Feb 14, 2013 |  2

We're digging deeper into Earth's crust than we ever have before, pulling water up and pumping it down. As Scientific American editor David Biello explains, these are just a few of the many ways humans are triggering severe seismic activity.


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  1. 1. jgrosay 06:00 PM 2/14/13

    Can humans cause earthquakes? Yes, we can! But: how noticeable and how relevant? Salut +

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  2. 2. Poppa beer 02:17 AM 2/17/13

    Maybe smaller shallow quakes but when you consider how deep that most quakes occurr it makes you wonder just how is our puny scratching around near the surface going to affect what is happening tens of miles underground, At present this is just speculation.

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