Earthquakes

Wed Mar 24 22:47:58 UTC 2010

On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:

> 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.

LOL @ NL creating artificial earthquake faults because they're Jealous of California's natural seismic events. ;-)

Owen