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
