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Aneirin -> The weight of construction (4/18/2008 7:33:25 AM)
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I was just reading WaratahBlossoms post on the earth quake and got to thinking about them. I do understand that earthquakes are due to techtonic plates grinding against each other as the planet continues to evolve.
But then another thought, is it possible we are adding to the problem. ?
I say this because of construction, the structures we build, we move thousand, perhaps millions of tonnes of materials around the world, extracted from one place and moved to another, and sometimes what might as a material to have covered a large area, becomes concentrated in one place, a building for example.
Now as I understand it, the techtonic plates 'float' on a sea of magma, is it possible that if something say as a material from a wide area is scraped and there piled up in another area, could this not disturb the balance of these floating plates?
Look at the most densest most built up modern city, there try to estimate the weight of materials, stone and concrete of all those structures in that area, the smaller the area, and the weight there concentrated, could that not be a possible problem to see ?
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