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    Filling large reservoirs through water impoundment behind dams has been linked to increases in local seismic activity in over 20 incidents. Reservoirs deeper than 100 meters and volumes over 1 cubic km are particularly likely to induce earthquakes. The filling of reservoirs for the Hoover Dam, Aswan High Dam, and Kariba Dam have been identified as sites where increased seismicity likely occurred due to reservoir augmentation.

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    Filling large reservoirs through water impoundment behind dams has been linked to increases in local seismic activity in over 20 incidents. Reservoirs deeper than 100 meters and volumes over 1 cubic km are particularly likely to induce earthquakes. The filling of reservoirs for the Hoover Dam, Aswan High Dam, and Kariba Dam have been identified as sites where increased seismicity likely occurred due to reservoir augmentation.

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    Filling large reservoirs through water impoundment behind dams has been linked to increases in local seismic activity in over 20 incidents. Reservoirs deeper than 100 meters and volumes over 1 cubic km are particularly likely to induce earthquakes. The filling of reservoirs for the Hoover Dam, Aswan High Dam, and Kariba Dam have been identified as sites where increased seismicity likely occurred due to reservoir augmentation.

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    Reservoir augmentation

    The filling of big reservoirs is one of the most important earthquake-causing operations mentioned above.
    More than 20 important incidents have been identified in which local seismicity has increased as a result
    of water impoundment behind high dams. Often, causality cannot be established since there is insufficient
    data to compare earthquake occurrence before and after the reservoir was filled. Reservoir-induction
    effects are particularly noticeable in reservoirs with depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet) and
    volumes greater than 1 cubic km (0.24 cubic mile). The Hoover Dam in the United States, the Aswan High
    Dam in Egypt, and the Kariba Dam on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia are three sites where
    such linkages are quite likely to have occurred. The most widely held explanation

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