Friday, June 6, 2008

Man Made Earthquakes?

So we've talked about creating man made weather patterns... but earthquakes? Its possible. According to WIRED magazine, villain Lex Luthor tried to create an earthquake to separate California in Superman. But according to Christian Klose from Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, "25 percent of Britian's recorded seismic events were caused by people.

5 Top Ways to create an earthquake:
1. Build a Dam
2. Inject Liquid Into the Ground
3. Mine a lot of coal
4. Drill a gusher dry
5. Create the worlds biggest building

The Taipei 101 building weighs more than 700,000 metric tons. Geologists claim that it was triggering earthquakes in a dormant fault in Taiwan. Crazy how much our own ego could be destroying us.

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