1.   Better yet, it could enable scientists to predict violence-prone areas, much as geologists can identify areas where building tensions below ground threaten to trigger earthquakes.

2.   In their view, earthquakes are triggered when the mechanical energy stored in a part of the crust passes a critical threshold.

3.   It is those fits and starts that trigger major earthquakes.

4.   The phenomenon appears to create no particular hazard, scientists said, and happens too close to the surface to trigger any earthquakes.

5.   These small changes may not be enough to trigger subsequent earthquakes immediately, but other earthquakes in the area become more or less likely as a result.

6.   They convulse whole cultures, spawn heroic myths, trigger literal earthquakes.

7.   They say the reservoir will be over an active fault line and the weight of the water could trigger an earthquake that could demolish the dam.

8.   A volcanic eruption triggered an earthquake in southeastern Indonesia, damaging hundreds of houses, schools and other buildings, a report said Saturday.