Which risk increases when groundwater is extracted along an active normal fault?

💡 Explanation

When groundwater is extracted, reduced pore pressure increases effective stress on the fault because frictional resistance decreases leading to slip events. Earthquakes increase, rather than plate movement changing, weathering accelerating, or heat flow reduction, which involve unrelated pressures and mechanisms.

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