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FOR KIDS: Groundwater removal linked to quake
Pumping water from the ground in southeastern Spain may have triggered a deadly 2011 earthquake there
Web edition: December 12, 2012
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This map shows where a deadly earthquake struck in southeastern Spain in May 2011. Scientists say the earthquake was triggered by groundwater removal.
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People in southeastern Spain pump water from the ground for drinking and for watering crops. That action may have helped set off an earthquake that killed nine people in 2011, a new study concludes.
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