Man, the Portugese really picked the worst spot for their capital, didn’t they
Portuguese people look at this map and go ‘Oh shit, why did we’ve to build it exactly there?’.
The most dangerous place is Hellenic arc ( Cretan arc ) it has a potential to nearly wiped out the entirety of the Eastern Mediterranean and half of central Mediterranean. It can create earthquakes big as 9.0 or even more.
Why Ukraine and Belarus not a part of Europe?
Forgot Groningen
As a sardinian, checkmate to the rest of Italy!
I don’t think this map tells the whole story. AFAIK in Iceland, while seismicity is very common, the risk of a highly destructive earthquake is actually negligible (the largest they’ve ever recorded was a 6.5).
Poland managed very rare combination of having ultra soft nature that wouldn’t kill a fly but also actually bad geographical location.
The Groningen region of the Netherlands has also had a number of smaller earthquakes over the past 10 years or so due to the natural gas extraction from deep wells.
Since 1963, the NAM joint venture (Shell interest 50%, ExxonMobil interest 50%) in partnership with the Dutch government, has operated the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, one of the largest onshore gas fields in the world.
Regrettably, gas production caused a large number of earthquakes in the area, which have damaged homes and buildings, and caused anxiety for people locally. Various measures are in place for this impact, such as improvements to damage claim handling and a value loss compensation scheme. As a result of the earthquakes, the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs has significantly limited gas production in Groningen since 2014. The measures included production limits in areas where the earthquakes caused the greatest damage and highest social impacts. Earthquakes in Groningen are becoming less frequent. In September 2016, the ministry approved the production of 24 billion cubic metres of gas per year in Groningen until October 1, 2021, and will review these production levels each year.
Sardinia surrounded by yellows and ornages:
“I am gonna build my own tectonic plate with black jack and hookers”
Turkey 🤝 Greece 🤝 Italy
Birthplaces of modern civilization, even though everything you build turns into ruins within 100 years.
Groningen enters the chat..
Oh no, apparently that area where I live just south of Brussels is at moderate-high risk of earthquakes.
I have never felt one in my life. What’s moderate risk, once every 1000 years?
I’m shocked how easy boundings in turkey fell down ..
Interesting, a huge earthquake seems to have moved Amsterdam east by quite a bit 👀
The map doesn’t show the Canary Islands. When i was living there it was rare to experience seismic activity, but definitely above average
what’s the reason behind the orange spot between Belgium and France ?
Not accurate, as Groningen is all white….
I remember how my mom told me about the earthquake she experienced. She remembers how you could feel the swinging of the house we lived in. Books where falling down from the bookshelves. I was only few months old. It happened in 2004 in Lithuania. The magnitude was around 5.0 and the epicentre was near the Kaliningrad.
Another story is of my friend’s who was born the day the earthquake happened. He told what his mum told him. When my friend was born an hour later the earthquake happened. His mum was in a hospital just after giving a birth. She was laying on a bed with wheels so when the earthquake struck the bed was going from one wall of the room to the other. It must have been scary and surreal at the same time. I can’t even think of such event in my country. It feels so odd.
Groningen would like to have a word with you
Ukraine is Europe.
Why you didnt put Georgia and Armenia they are also Europe(maybe not Armenia but Georgia really is)
With the one in Romania occasionally able to make earthquakes that can be felt a good distance away. Some 500-1000km for the average one, but the worst recorded one (around the 1800s, some 8 on Richter scale) apparently was felt all the way to Paris. Hah.
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Source: https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/mapping-europes-earthquake-risk
Sure, Groningen’s all fine and dandy..
Man, the Portugese really picked the worst spot for their capital, didn’t they
Portuguese people look at this map and go ‘Oh shit, why did we’ve to build it exactly there?’.
The most dangerous place is Hellenic arc ( Cretan arc ) it has a potential to nearly wiped out the entirety of the Eastern Mediterranean and half of central Mediterranean. It can create earthquakes big as 9.0 or even more.
Why Ukraine and Belarus not a part of Europe?
Forgot Groningen
As a sardinian, checkmate to the rest of Italy!
I don’t think this map tells the whole story. AFAIK in Iceland, while seismicity is very common, the risk of a highly destructive earthquake is actually negligible (the largest they’ve ever recorded was a 6.5).
Poland managed very rare combination of having ultra soft nature that wouldn’t kill a fly but also actually bad geographical location.
The Groningen region of the Netherlands has also had a number of smaller earthquakes over the past 10 years or so due to the natural gas extraction from deep wells.
Since 1963, the NAM joint venture (Shell interest 50%, ExxonMobil interest 50%) in partnership with the Dutch government, has operated the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, one of the largest onshore gas fields in the world.
Regrettably, gas production caused a large number of earthquakes in the area, which have damaged homes and buildings, and caused anxiety for people locally. Various measures are in place for this impact, such as improvements to damage claim handling and a value loss compensation scheme. As a result of the earthquakes, the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs has significantly limited gas production in Groningen since 2014. The measures included production limits in areas where the earthquakes caused the greatest damage and highest social impacts. Earthquakes in Groningen are becoming less frequent. In September 2016, the ministry approved the production of 24 billion cubic metres of gas per year in Groningen until October 1, 2021, and will review these production levels each year.
Sardinia surrounded by yellows and ornages:
“I am gonna build my own tectonic plate with black jack and hookers”
Turkey 🤝 Greece 🤝 Italy
Birthplaces of modern civilization, even though everything you build turns into ruins within 100 years.
Groningen enters the chat..
Oh no, apparently that area where I live just south of Brussels is at moderate-high risk of earthquakes.
I have never felt one in my life. What’s moderate risk, once every 1000 years?
I’m shocked how easy boundings in turkey fell down ..
Interesting, a huge earthquake seems to have moved Amsterdam east by quite a bit 👀
The map doesn’t show the Canary Islands. When i was living there it was rare to experience seismic activity, but definitely above average
what’s the reason behind the orange spot between Belgium and France ?
Not accurate, as Groningen is all white….
I remember how my mom told me about the earthquake she experienced. She remembers how you could feel the swinging of the house we lived in. Books where falling down from the bookshelves. I was only few months old. It happened in 2004 in Lithuania. The magnitude was around 5.0 and the epicentre was near the Kaliningrad.
Another story is of my friend’s who was born the day the earthquake happened. He told what his mum told him. When my friend was born an hour later the earthquake happened. His mum was in a hospital just after giving a birth. She was laying on a bed with wheels so when the earthquake struck the bed was going from one wall of the room to the other. It must have been scary and surreal at the same time. I can’t even think of such event in my country. It feels so odd.
Groningen would like to have a word with you
Ukraine is Europe.
Why you didnt put Georgia and Armenia they are also Europe(maybe not Armenia but Georgia really is)
With the one in Romania occasionally able to make earthquakes that can be felt a good distance away. Some 500-1000km for the average one, but the worst recorded one (around the 1800s, some 8 on Richter scale) apparently was felt all the way to Paris. Hah.