Already I've read woowoo claims in comments on articles about
the big earthquake that happened in China today.
Somebody claimed that the building of the
Three Gorges Dam (resp. the pressures that the filling reservoir is putting on the plates) could have caused the tensions that caused the earthquake in Sichuan today.
I think this is utter bunk and would like to refute them, but I need some help on the numbers... as I'm not a geologist nor a designer of water reservoirs.
See the link above for numbers on the epicentre and depth - the dam was apparently outside the quake area, but that won't shut them up I guess.
