“…Studies on the seismicity migration (Lei et al., 2020; Meng et al., 2018), focal mechanism (Chu & Sheng, 2023; Dai et al., 2023; Liu & Zahradník, 2020; Sheng et al., 2020; Yi et al., 2020), Coulomb stress changes (Lei et al., 2017), finite fault models (S. Wang et al., 2022), statistical analysis (e.g., b ‐values and ETAS models, etc.) (Sheng et al., 2022; Tan et al., 2023), and numerical simulation (H. Yang et al., 2024; Y. Yang et al., 2023) in southern Sichuan suggested that industrial activities could alter the subsurface fluid state, affect the local crustal stress, accelerate the fracturing of tectonic formations, and finally induce earthquakes.…”