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Subject: MORE EARTHQUAKES WHERE MORE PEOPLE LIVE?

Date: Wed Feb 27 04:14:40 2002
Posted by CAROLYN
Grade level: undergrad School: Home
City: Myrtle Beach State/Province: SC Country: USA
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 1014801280.Es
Message:

MY 97-YEAR-OLD FRIEND TOLD ME THAT HE BELIEVES EARTHQUAKES ARE CAUSED FROM HIGH
POPULATED PLACES PUMPING MUCH WATER FROM BELOW THE  GROUND, & THAT MEXICO
CITY WAS BUILT OVER A LAKE. IF A SHIP WERE ON THE OCEAN AND RAN INTO AN ENORMOUS
HOLE, THE SHIP WOULD FALL INTO THE HOLE...SAME WITH GROUND. SO I WONDERED IF 
THERE IS SOME KIND OF A PATTERN OF "MORE EARTHQUAKES" HAPPENING WHERE THERE ARE
"MORE PEOPLE," AND IF THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE...  ARE THERE FEWER EARTHQUAKES
WHERE FEWER PEOPLE LIVE?  MY FRIEND ALSO SAID THAT EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN IN "DRY
SEASONS" MORE THAN IN "WET SEASONS."  THANK YOU!



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