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The phrase "triggering earthquakes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing causes or phenomena that lead to seismic activity. Example: "The recent volcanic activity is believed to be triggering earthquakes in the surrounding region."
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But what about the risk of triggering earthquakes?
But Dr. Seeber said this technology "has huge implications for triggering earthquakes".
The drilling – or rather, the process of injecting water deep underground – has been triggering earthquakes in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.
Many of the scary stories about underground blasts triggering earthquakes and tap water catching fire are isolated cases from the wildcat days of the industry in under-regulated parts of the US.
A. "Yes, human engineering has been triggering earthquakes for more than half a century," said Leonardo Seeber, Lamont research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and manmade quakes may be more common than is acknowledged.
The ebb and flow of ocean tides may play a role in triggering earthquakes.
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EGS can trigger earthquakes.
"The numbers are well within the range of stress changes that have triggered earthquakes on other faults".
In recent years, engineers have also come to appreciate that large artificial reservoirs can trigger earthquakes that would not occur in the absence of the reservoirs.
Frack waste has triggered earthquakes from Ohio to Oklahoma, and fouled rivers in Pennsylvania to North Dakota – and now the Obama administration is being sued by environmental groups to crack down on the industry.
Zhang Boting, the deputy secretary of China Hydroelectric Engineering, has admitted that reservoirs may trigger earthquakes, but he claims that they also dampen their intensity and help to stave off worse disasters.
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