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Technically just a little bit different from fracking as used in the oil/gas industry, since it doesn't create new fractures in the rock, it only expands existing ones. However it carries basically the same risks with at most a difference in magnitude.
There's an interesting case in Switzerland where they tried to drill one over an historically active fault line, without first doing a seismic risk assessment.