Earthquakes
Jeroen van Aart
jeroen at mompl.net
Wed Mar 24 22:32:14 UTC 2010
Owen DeLong wrote:
> I've been through more than one quake in the 5.2-5.5 range, so, perhaps they are
> rare in the Netherlands (6 million years or so), but, in California they are much more
> frequent, perhaps 5-7 years or so.
Well, 6 million years was a "slight" exaggeration to get a point across.
The Netherlands doesn't really have any quakes due to faultlines (there
aren't any). But it does have the occasional quake due to coal/gas
mining. Where the ground compacts or something like it.
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