“…Drilling in South African Goldmines has also been a centerpiece in fault drilling with the most recent project (DSEIS) that successfully penetrated into the aftershock plane of a M 5.5 earthquake (Ogasawara et al, 2019). Important progress has also been made through the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) on the Alpine Fault in New Zealand (Sutherland et al, 2017) and offshore drilling into the top of the rupture of the great Tohoku earthquake in Japan (JFAST project), supported by ICDP's offshore sibling, the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) (Chester et al, 2013).…”