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Prof. Xavier Le Pichon, considered by academic circles as one of the most important living earthquake scientists, responded to a question on the subject in a program he participated in turkish TV as follows (btw, the person sitting next to him is Prof. Celal Şengör, who is also highly respected in the international academic community, I give this anecdote to indicate that the open forum was conducted in an academic framework far from populist coffee talk rather than his views)
Question: Is it possible to trigger an earthquake by an external factor? Is it possible to start a fault rupture process in this way? Is this something possible?
Le Pichon: The forces in question are formidably high. You cannot unleash this power by human hands. But here's what can do: which we know how to do and we try to do, you can change the resistance of the fault line. There is a friction, and when the friction is blocked, the earthquake is prevented from occurring. The point is that you can reduce this resistance by injecting liquid with a special compound into the fault, and that's how an earthquake can happen. This can be done, we are already doing it. In many places, in the many country, for example, when we are exploring for shale gas, the liquid that we inject causes an earthquake, so we can break the rock. We are not creating the earthquake here, we are breaking the resistance of the existing fault line. 'Knock', and suddenly an earthquake occurs. So, we cannot create earthquakes in non-earthquake-prone area, but we can activate earthquakes on existing fault lines. We can activate small earthquakes, oil companies often do this.
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The professor briefly mentions that if we reduce the resistance, we can create mini earthquakes on a regional scale thus carry out geoscientific studies or hydro/carbon exploration activities in the region, and that this is already a known method.
There are two important anecdotes about the Kahramanmaraş Elbistan region. The first one is that this region is one of the lines of the Anatolian Fault with the highest earthquake potential, the region where the Eurasian and Arabian Peninsula tectonic lines intersect. If you look at the earthquake risk maps of TR, 200-kilometer main fault that has broken is one of the two regions expected to produce the highest intensity earthquakes. The other detail I would like to bring to your attention is that this region has Turkiye's largest coal deposits and also shale gas reserves. The exact spot is Elbistan, the epicenter of the second earthquake. Oil exploration is also underway in this region. There is a foreign company operating in the region and there are reports that one of the boreholes burned for more than two days.
My aim is not to produce any conspiracy theory, but to share with you some remarkable anecdotes from the earthquake zone.