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In the Bond film A View To A Kill. James remarks that they're pumping sea water into the oil fields and a geologists states that the area is near a fault line and that it is incredibly dangerous. Is this true? and if so why?
gpt
Haha well maybe but probably not, though that's the best bond film because geology, Christopher Walken and peak 80s.

I guess the best analogy would be fracking, which  can induce earthquakes by increasing the fluid pressure in faults. There have been some magnitude 4-5 quakes in places like Oklahoma where induced seismicity from fracking is to blame. But fracking is a whole lot more complex than just pumping water down a hole. Magnitude 4-5 quakes also represent slip on relatively small surfaces...say 3x3km of fault length. A massively damaging quake like Zorin wants would be slip on 10s to 100s of km of the San Andreas. There just isn't data on how seismicity of that scale can be induced artificially. It seems like it would require fracking on an enormous scale. Maybe even a cave filled with dynamite.......ha.