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.
(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.