• creamed_eels@toast.ooo
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      7 months ago

      No, the earthquake was about Americans needing to repent and turn their backs on sinful, unraked forests

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      7 months ago

      Fracking can induce earthquakes.

      Excessive rains following dry periods (like much of the northeast has seen…very dry winter followed by a very, very wet early spring) often causes landslides.

      Is it really that far fetched that heavy rain could, on occasion, lead to quakes?

      Especially considering we have decades old man-made means of dealing with water runoff. Instead of rain water permeating into the soil where it lands, now it gets funneled to one spot.