How big must an explosion be to make a fault line give away ? I mean, does any human-made detonation have enough force to cause the La Palma landslide or to cause the San Andreas fault to give way and turn California into an island ?
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If there's a fault line, all you need to do is to lubricate it by pumping water in. It doesn't even need heat.
But to answer the question, you don't need a very big explosion when the fault is on a 'hair trigger".