[124134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Earthquakes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 24 18:48:48 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BAA92EE.5010309@mompl.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:47:58 -0700
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
>=20
> 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
