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Earthquake fear ends Dutch gas boom:
The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean—but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far.
The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface, yet closer inspection reveals cracks in homes, schools and historic buildings.
A series of quakes caused by extractions at Europe's biggest gas field in Groningen province culminated in a 3.4-magnitude tremor in January, the biggest for six years.
[...] Facing a wave of public anger over the threat to life and limb, the Dutch government announced that all gas extraction from Groningen will end by 2030.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday September 27 2018, @09:37AM (2 children)
I don't think the historically volcanically active south ever gives a shit about humanity's ancient buildings, yet for the most part the great works of the Romans are not cracking and falling apart. Maybe northern europen architects should just not suck at a basic art that southerners mastered over 2000 years ago.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 27 2018, @11:13AM
Maybe that's because they used Roman concrete [wikipedia.org], which incorporated volcanic ash. I think SN might even have had a story on that sort of recently, how it caused the formation of carbon nanotubes.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:01PM
Note that only those buildings that didn't fall apart are still standing. So when judging from the buildings that still stand means you inherently have a massive selection bias, as the vast majority of buildings the Romans built no longer exist.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.