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human
ELI5: If fracking can trigger small earthquakes, would we use it to "alleviate" pressure along major fault lines and prevent bigger quakes?

From an article I just read fracking triggered a 4.6 magnitude quake. 4.6 isn't bad at all in California, and much more manageable than the 7+ quakes. From what I understand a quake happens when there's too much built up tension and something gives way. If we could alleviate tension at designated "earthquake" times, could that prevent a much larger unforeseen quake?
gpt
It is a good idea and might work. No one is going to try it. To put it another way it would have to be a Federal or State project. Only they have sovereign immunity which would be needed. People would be suing for it causing heart attacks or anything else.

Major fault lines can run for hundreds of miles. We have proved we can cause small earthquakes. But scaling up to relieve all the stresses along a major fault line without triggering an immensely damaging major quake is beyond what we can do.

It is hard to imagine how we could scale up to it.