More events, more comments on those events, still more events provoked by those comments, and in turn, comments on those comment-induced events.

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These will be spread like wild-fires by frequent climate change-induced weather events of catastrophic proportions.

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"While the general mechanisms that create induced seismic events are well understood, we are currently unable to accurately predict the magnitude or occurrence of such events due to the lack of comprehensive data on complex natural rock systems and the lack of validated predictive models, " it states.

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"The situation in Italy can be extrapolated to carry larger significance in Europe, but the reality is that the Continent's financial system is much more stable than when regional political events could trigger a panic-induced sell-off, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager at Chibagin Asset Management.

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The recent heat wave that has fried much of the country, ruined crops and led to heat-related deaths has again raised the question of whether this and other extreme weather events can be attributed to human-induced climate change.

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But the authors of the new study focus on the significantly larger and delayed events in Prague, which they wrote "necessitate reconsideration of the maximum possible size of injection-induced earthquakes, and of the time scale considered diagnostic of induced seismicity".

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