Reply #52: the US gov't ADMITS they cause earthquakes!

[uncle ray]

i was one of the crazy tinfoil hatters who spoke of the possibility of man causing earthquakes near the middle east as a result of our bombing, on DU about a year ago, only to be met with ridicule, that no way we have the power to make earthquakes happen...fast forward to this fall, October or so, there was a fairly small earthquake near the Colorado/Utah border, i think a 4.8 or so. well about a month after that particular earthquake, i read a nice little article in the denver post that quoted our own gov't people admitting that we likely caused that earthquake, their reason being an operation that pumps brine into the earth as a result of a water purification effort. they pump in 100+ gallons per minute deep into the earth. they have been well aware they are causing earthquakes, and moniter them.

so, if a few hundred gallons of water per minute can cause an earthquake, what can one or more large nuclear blasts do?