Sentence examples for trigger a tremor from inspiring English sources
That puts pressure on layers of rock far below the surface, which can trigger a tremor even in areas where there's little history of quakes, he said.
The hunt for shale gas in Lancashire has been brought to a halt after fracking triggered a tremor which ripped through the Government's safety guidelines.
The shale company Cuadrilla was forced to halt operations for 18 hours on Friday after a 0.8-magnitude tremor, and operations that restarted on Saturday morning triggered a second tremor.
But until these two quakes, only one person was believed to have been killed in a tremor triggered by the extraction of hydrocarbons in Uzbekistan in 1984.ICHESE is not saying fluid injection at Cavone did cause the quakes only that the process, and the resulting extraction of petroleum, might have done so.
This employed an inverted pendulum that, when disturbed by ground tremors, would trigger a set of gears that dropped a metal ball from one of eight dragon mouths (representing all eight directions) into a metal toad's mouth.
The blast was so violent it was suspected of triggering a 2.2-magnitude tremor in a nearby county that was picked up by China's earthquake monitors.
Cuadrilla has not triggered any tremors since Sunday 4 November, when a 0.7-magnitude quake was registered.
The quakes triggered landslides, damaged buildings and sent people fleeing just two weeks after a tremor killed more than 480 people there and made hundreds of thousands homeless.
