So, earthquake is when two plates keep piling on each other and building stress/pressure that reaches a critical point and discharges all this built up energy. Is it possible do preemptively discharge this pressure while it’s still not big enough to cause serious damage? Like, with bombs or something. And if yes, why nobody does it?
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Even if we ignore the question of how to do that: Each step on the Richter scale is a factor ~30 in energy. If you want to dissipate the energy of a single magnitude 9 earthquake then you need around 30 earthquakes of magnitude 8, or 1000 of magnitude 7. Is a monthly severe earthquake better than a once-in-a-lifetime devastating earthquake?
There is also the political aspect: Who would approve that? Who would approve additional earthquakes after some people died from induced earthquakes?
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