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World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes?

Posted by Zonk on from the just-big-boned dept.

IZ Reloaded writes "A geologist thinks that the increase in the number of earthquakes in Taiwan is due to Taipei 101, the world's tallest building. CNN reports: 'Lin said Taipei 101 weighed 700,000 tons and estimated stress from vertical loading on its foundation at 4.7 bars, of which some would be transferred to the earth's upper crust due to extremely soft sedimentary rocks beneath the Taipei basin. If a fault is about to crack, then a little pressure can trigger an earthquake. It's like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.'" More from The Guardian.

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  1. Haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those damn asians

  2. Re:Nature will work it out by countchoc12 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Humans can't do shit to the Earth, most we can do is try to send nuclear missiles to the center of the earth like that terrible movie. Either way it'll just make it inhabitable for humans and it was our own goddamn fault. So stop preaching that we're hurting nature bullshit, we're being held at the throat by nature.

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  3. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    there's a party in cmdrtaco's mouth

    everybody's cumming

    FUCK YOU

  4. Re:Induced Seismicity by p4k · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice troll, sounds really impressive (apart from the fact that you can't spell "latent"). I wonder how many people reading it failed to realise that every single "fact" presented was complete fiction?