The Dam That Shook the Earth: Koyna and India's Deepest Science Borehole

Here is a fact that sounds like it cannot possibly be true: in 1967, near a quiet stretch of Maharashtra's Western Ghats, human beings appear to have helped set off a deadly earthq

The Koyna Dam was completed and its reservoir impounded starting in 1962, reaching close to full capacity by 1965.

The phenomenon has a name: reservoir-triggered seismicity (RTS).

Why India is drilling kilometres into the rock

Most earthquakes happen 10 or more kilometres underground, far beyond our reach.