Scientists Intentionally Trigger 8,000 Earthquakes Deep Beneath Swiss Alps
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Scientists have described the experiment as completely safe.
Scientists INTENTIONALLY Trigger 8,000 Earthquakes Deep Beneath Swiss Alps
by Steve Watson, Modernity News: Controversial experiment raising questions about unintended consequences Scientists at ETH Zurich university in Switzerland have deliberately induced around 8,000 seismic events deep underground in the Swiss Alps as part of an experiment called Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR-2). The team injected 750,000 litres of water into the ground via two boreholes over approximately […]
In the south of Switzerland, researchers propose an unprecedented experiment: they trigger thousands of "controlled" micro-earthquakes to deepen knowledge about seismicity and limit its risks. Discovered. "It's a success!", exclaimed Domenico Giardini, one of the main researchers of the project, by inspecting a crack in the rock wall of a tunnel ...
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