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Originally Posted by aurora
How far is the reservoir from the fault, or from the epicenter of the quake?
Edited to add, if the reservoir was having an impact, we would expect to see an increase in small quakes under and next to the reservoir as it filled. Have there been such an increase? If so, are they related to the fault in question?
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That's not necessarily true - if the dam was on a solid plate, you could have tilt motion at the edge of the plate & that could be some distance off.
But the weight of even such a dam as this one seems highly unlikely to have produced a quake. It's an unstable area & as shown in the China Daily articles, 5 years ago or more, the local experts were predicting one to come, not because of the dam but simply because it was overdue based on the extended history.
Now if that amount of water had been slid into the fault itself...? Then the woowoo would have a case.