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posted by mrpg on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the 2030? dept.

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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 27 2018, @11:13AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 27 2018, @11:13AM (#740741) Journal

    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.

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