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Geography is destiny.

• newsclues 4y ago
  Geopolitics is so fun. Turkey had a great position controlling access to the Black Sea during a major conflict, then Earthquakes happened. Given the oil and Americans in the region, I wonder if they are fracking....
  • Tuna-Fish 4y ago
    Not that kind of earthquake. Fracking does not and cannot cause large, deep earthquakes like the one recently in Turkey, in which plates significantly move in respect to each other. They can cause very shallow, weak earthquakes, where the top of earth's crust slightly moves.
    • Someone 4y ago
      Shallow, weak (in magnitude) earthquakes can do significant damage locally because the intensity of an earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales) decreases with distance to its source. https://www.insidescience.org/news/2019-year-fracking-earthquakes-turned-deadly https://www.insidescience.org/news/2019-year-fracking-earthq...: “The Feb. 25 earthquake was only a magnitude 4.9, which would not traditionally be considered very dangerous. But it was able to destroy older and more vulnerable buildings because it was so close to the surface -- only about one kilometer deep according to the new study”