Guess who's building nuclear plants in Texas

Ach, well. As long as there's no tsunami risk.
 
never mind tsunami's - what about oil extraction:
http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/rare-4-0-earthquake-hits-south-texas-on-saturday-night

The depth of this quake was around 5.0km, which suggests it was either geological or induced by oil production, which does happen. Never-the-less this is an interesting area to have a quake due to the fact the area has a large crack running north to south in Texas, discovered several years ago, origin being unknown.
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a 4 is almost nothing - it feels like a truck hit the building you are in, which I admit is still not exactly "fun". But it sure is nothing like that 9 that hit Japan.

but if they build a nuclear plant and it's close enough to be affected by quakes "caused" by oil production.....well, they are screwed
 
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