Re: Earthquakes

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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