[124135] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Earthquakes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Scholten)
Wed Mar 24 19:01:29 2010
From: "Mark Scholten" <mark@streamservice.nl>
To: "'NANOG list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E648F36A-B933-4E6E-AF0C-616AD03C01D1@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:16 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:48 PM
> To: Jeroen van Aart
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: Earthquakes
>
>
> 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. ;-)
Sorry for being jealous ;)
At least we create them and in California they just happen.
Mark
