I am quiet serious. (And I am a geologist.)
To be fair, "earth quakes" is not the correct term --- unexpected seismic disturbances (not at the plate level, mind you, much higher) did occur. Bad enough that they shut the project down.
They were pumping large amounts of sea water down fairly deep to encounter temps of 500 degrees or so.
The Wright brothers also failed the first few attempts.
-zb