“the fact that rain could trigger an earthquake at all suggests that it takes extremely little to produce a tremor”
Now why would anyone suggest that only a little rain would cause an earthquake after observing that a huge rainfall could cause a small earthquake??
Oh yeah, so they can get on the “you’re going to die if you don’t fund my research bandwagon” with statements like this...
“They concluded that the Earth’s crust in a delicate balance, teetering on the edge of a slight shake-up at any moment”
Wow, I hope this was an inexpensive study. This has been known and studied for a long time. Heck old faithful is a benign example of water sinking and turning to steam and then spouting. What would happen if there wasn’t a safe way to blow off the steam?