Earthquakes inward the Groningen Gas Field is a neat mapped visualization of earthquakes caused past times gas drilling inward the Groningen percentage of the Netherlands.
The map animates through the history of Groningen earthquakes inward chronological order, since 1987. While the map animation plays a serial of related facts too other data scrolls across the bottom of the map. The map every bit good makes proficient role of audio effects to signal when an earthquake appears on the map, amongst a dissimilar audio used for the to a greater extent than pregnant quakes.
It is worth viewing the whole of the animated visualization. When it finishes you lot are rewarded amongst a link to an in-depth investigation into the lawsuit of the quakes on the people too buildings of Groningen. This includes an explanation of why the gas-drilling caused earthquakes are too then damaging, The earthquakes are real shallow too then bring much to a greater extent than lawsuit than normal earthquakes. Because they come about too then nearly to the surface a gas quake of two on the Richter scale has much to a greater extent than of an lawsuit than a natural earthquake of the same magnitude, which occurs much deeper.
