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Originally Posted by jambutty
Interesting view.
Would you like to put some meat on the bones?
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I will give you one recent example now and will supply more later
The chinese earthquake in 2008 occurred because a dam that was built caused the weight of water to stress the junction of tectonic plates
2008 Sichuan earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"According to Chinese state officials, the quake caused 69,181 known deaths including 68,636 in Sichuan province; 18,498 people are listed as missing, and 374,171 injured, but these figures may further increase as more reports come in."
"An article in Science Magazine suggests that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake. The chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau finds this hypothesis "very likely".