Week 4 Earthquakes

• The Netherlands is not usually active when it comes to earthquakes due to the fact that they are pretty far away from the Eurasian and North American plates. However, there have been a few earthquakes that have hit the Netherlands in the past.
• The last big earthquake to hit the Netherlands happened September 8 2011 with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale.

• Although the Netherlands does not typically have seismic activity, some eastern parts of the Netherlands experience earthquakes due to a long, thin rift valley where there is an uplifting of the Alps and the collision of the Eurasian and African plates.
• The Netherlands does experiences some seismic activity due to  the oil drilling that the government does. Although the seismic activity was not a factor at first, a lot more seismic activity has been tracked in the recent years.
• Because of these new earthquakes, residents have began calling on the government to shut down oil drilling because the drilling has caused earthquakes that have damaged houses and sent the property prices of houses extremely down.

http://article.wn.com/view/2015/02/19/Natural_gas_drilling_is_causing_earthquakes_in_Europe_too/
http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2011/09/earthquake-in-netherlands-8-september.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/10162343/Earthquakes-from-onshore-gas-drilling-threaten-a-disaster-warn-residents-of-Dutch-city.html