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Pollution and earthquakes

Hamid Sadeghipour

                                                  11.11.2009

Scientific American has reported: “some tremors may be aftershocks of bigger earthquakes that occurred hundreds of years ago, researchers say”. Big conflicts and wars as well might influence us and present conflicts might be troublesome in future. Pollution control is a duty and needs good intentions. There are some earthquakes that might be caused by some waste water produced by some units of an industrial city. Or intake of chemical fertilizers in rivers or underground water and even transfer of these solutions to higher lands by capillarity of the soil that might be a volcanic land. The accumulation of the chemicals in some point might change the behavior of the soil and ends by an earthquake. They might be weak for moment but in long term might become dangerous. For example the waste material made by nanotechnology in the nature might produce an impermeable layer and hurting in different aspects unless, for example, we collect them and burn them as recycling.  We have to recycle what might endanger us and do not let them go to some wells or running water without refining. Or leave them in nature without special attention. It is not a fault, but might affect the faults.