Die Geister Die Ich Rief
Eve Martin told me the tsunami that caused the nuclear reactor problem in Fukushima, Japan, was accidentally caused by one of her uncles in a failed extortion attempt. Apparently, he was only trying to demonstrate a small earthquake as evidence he could do it in order to extort money from the Japanese government, but the equipment he used unintentionally triggered an underwater earthquake off-shore, much stronger than he had expected and in a different location than he had planned, and that caused the tsunami which damaged the reactor.
Eve did not know details of the equipment, but from what she did know, I suspect it was a mechanical oscillator something like the so-called "earthquake machine" invented in the late 19th century by Nikola Tesla. That device was a sort of vibrator that allegedly could vibrate at the "resonance frequency" of the bedrock it was attached to and make it vibrate enough that in a fault zone where some underlying instability already existed, underground rock strata would slip and start an earhquake.
Several attempts have been made to test out this method of creating earthquakes, and so far as has been made public, they have all failed. Of course, if someone had succeeded, they would probably be smart enough to keep quiet and not say anything for fear of being held liable for earthquake damages. But on close examination of the reports that have been made public, none of these failed attempts has taken into account the pre-existing conditions underground.
It is very unlikely this method could cause an earthquake "from scratch", in a randomly selected location, but that does not mean it could not trigger an earthquake in a major fault zone where there were already stresses built up and stored energy waiting to be released. In such a place, under such conditions of an "earthquake waiting to happen", it might not take too much artificial vibration to make things underground start to slip, while in a location without such potential energy in waiting it would be nearly impossible to obtain the same results.
It is very unlikely this method could cause an earthquake "from scratch", in a randomly selected location, but that does not mean it could not trigger an earthquake in a major fault zone where there were already stresses built up and stored energy waiting to be released. In such a place, under such conditions of an "earthquake waiting to happen", it might not take too much artificial vibration to make things underground start to slip, while in a location without such potential energy in waiting it would be nearly impossible to obtain the same results.
As a result of this debacle, when Eve's uncle returned home to the U.K., the rest of the family decided in a family meeting that he was going crazy and was a threat to the family, so he was executed by one of Eve's stepbrothers. Eve was present at the execution and after her brother had shot her uncle, whom she had always hated, as he was dying, she leaned over and said to him,
"You know you're going to Hell, don't you?"
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