How does one prevent an earthquake from happening?

How does one prevent an earthquake from happening?

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You can do it by not living on a planet with tectonic plates.

Kill god

Prayer

Lots of Earthquake museums, so that earthquakes can learn to never happen again.

>by not living in Chile or Japan

Rebar a mile deep everywhere on earth

Make fat people illegal

not live in the near the San Andreas fault

by turning off haarp

By not living on a planet that is still geologically active.

Look how that turned out for Mars though.

Filling the cracks with jello

social media campaigns for awareness

By enacting strict anti-earthquake laws with tough punishments.

On-line petitions.

Social media campaigns work too.

shock absorbers

You don't, you learn from disasters and adapt

Get yourself a natural disaster control device, senpai, it's 2358 for heaven's sake!

Fuckin' plebs.

Global warming causes earthquakes, so stiff carbon taxes should help to prevent them.

Ban gay marriage of course.

Make earthquake free zones

If you prevent the earthquake, it wins

Deport them and close the borders

Stop all activity in the planets core. The magnetic field will go away and the Sun will kill us all, so there's a few downsides

Destroy the Earth.

Buy my water filters & male vitality supplements.

>Dismantled in 2009

there are no earthquakes actually, just isolated incidences of earth movement

build a space station or some levitating city

Create earthquake-free zones around all faults. While you're at it, create tsunami-free zones around all coastlines.

Jews cause earthquakes! Gas the jews!

>No one here knows there's an actual non-joke answer to this question
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>At Vice's Motherboard, Derek Mead writes that scientists have developed a way—still incredibly preliminary—to stop an earthquake's energy in its tracks.

>When a fault line ruptures—the onset of an earthquake—waves are sent racing out through the ground. Some, like primary waves, cause the the ground to shake back and forth. Others, like the slower-moving secondary waves, force the surface to rock and roll. (It is this up-and-down roiling motion that often sends buildings tumbling.) There are other types of waves, too, like Love waves and Rayleigh waves.

>Now, the thing about waves is that they need a medium to pass through.

>By drilling holes in the ground that were specifically spaced out according to the wavelength of the seismic waves, says Mead, the scientists were able to disrupt the waves' propagation. They built what is, essentially, an earthquake reflector.

>“The image below shows the relative change in wave strength before and after the grid was drilled. As you can see, in the region where bores were drilled, wave strength dropped immensely. Near the source, the strength increased, as waves were reflected backwards.”

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There are no such things as earthquakes. Earthquakes are a conspiracy generated by the people who -really- run things. The damage that you see is actually faked by crisis actors in order to collect and steal relief funds.

Study it out. Earthquakes can't crack asphalt pavement.

Why aren't we doing this? Too expensive?

this doesn't sound like a good idea

surely preventing earthquakes would have some unforeseen consequence

>he doesn't know how to use sheep's bladders