Can We Stop Earthquakes?

Is it inherent and has mankind reached the point in which they can now stop Earthquakes? By knowing all the pressure points along major fault lines is it inherent to alleviate pressure and prevent the "big one" or the Monster Quake in California which we all know is only a matter of time?

This very serious topic has recently come up in an online think tank and has been discussed at length. It seems roughly an impossible task to achieve although it has been the dream of many tectonic researchers indeed.

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Of course the faults would have to be completely mapped and we would need to determine exactly how the weight distribution works and where. But making or stopping an Earthquake may not be so difficult once all this in known. Pop a pressure point in a large fault line in the middle of plates or within plates and it will give way and you have a quake.

Relieve pressure gently and the event is a lot of little slippage without damage to civilizations. But in doing so you may be changing other cycles of cataclysmic evolution which is needed for an additional one species to survive by eliminating a dominate player in its food chain. Everything you do affects something else. So you must make sure when you make a move that you think through the entire game so to speak. This is a fun conversation assuredly and many citizen are intrigued by the conception of a time to come when man conquers quakes. Reconsider this in 2006.

Can We Stop Earthquakes?