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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.
USGS
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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