Last Thursday evening there was a real earthquake, magnitude 4.5 of the Richter scale, near Nijmegen. It occurred at a 7 kilometer depth, which enabled many people to experience it, but not us. According to nu.nl the earthquake is number 3 of the worst earthquakes in the past 100 years.
One geologist is already spreading doomsday scenario's because current nuclear power plants in Belgium and Germany are 'only' prepared to withstand earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.5.
See these Dutch links for more information: nu; knmi (for an overview of all earthquakes from 1904-2004); powned.
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