> That daily recharge is implicated in the region’s frequent small earthquakes. (But nobody seems too worried about that, and maybe it’s a good thing? Many small better than one big?)
See also: the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes whose epicenter was the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake geothermal plant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ridgecrest_earthquakes
https://news.usni.org/2019/07/09/california-earthquakes-leav...
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=35.766&mlon=-117.605&zoo... (Epicenter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_Chin...
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/10874/?...