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Here in Germany, that hasn't been true at all so far. For starters, there aren't any "pretty isolated areas" in the first place, since the entire country is pretty densely settled compared to e.g. Iceland. There are still some ongoing projects, though, IIRC they are usually being done for district heating, which has to be near populated areas per definition. I think these types of projects aren't as likely to create earthquakes as the ones for electricity in Iceland, though.
Huh, interesting. I checked my country for this and it seems here we too have a coal plant right next to housing area, but it seems like the housing is the one creep toward the coal plant, not the other way around.
But then i'm not sure what sort of error will cause a quake and ruin houses. Is there any case happen to past construction?
I don't think a coal plant would cause earthquakes.
From @crater2150@feddit.org's comment:
It's specific to geothermal
Ohh ya i wasn't saying it would, i was just correcting my misinformed opinion that powerplant won't be build near housing area.