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There's history in Switzerland of creating accidental earthquakes by attempting to harness geothermal energy in 2006
https://www.wired.com/story/swiss-rock-lab/
The tooling is likely a lot better now, ironically because of oil and gas companies developing advanced drilling tools for fracking.
Some of those ex O&G employees are working on "geothermal anywhere" projects with that tooling, some of which are live now.