are a lot more of them then you might think and we're going to discuss that now with professor julian folger who's compiled a database of more than $700.00 quakes which were probably caused by human activity professor it's a pleasure to have you with us can you talk me through that. 2nd earthquake which i described there in north korea iran and what it was this earthquake which was 8 minutes afterwards it could have been simply a geological fault that had been induced to slip or it could possibly have been implosion of the huge cavity that's formed by the test it's well known that this occurs it's been observed many times for example at the nevada test site with american nuclear testing and following these tests there's such a disruption of the local stress fail that swarms of earthquakes often occur what's been to your knowledge the biggest of these human induced earthquakes the biggest earthquake which has been proposed on scientific grounds to have been human induced is the 2008 magnitude 7.9 when trying a quake in the people's republic of china. this has been proposed to have been trigge

it's up to you to make your own decision about whether you believe this or that case professor julian folger what a fascinating topic and i'm really glad we could talk to you about it thank you so much for your time it was a pleasure kemal thank you and that is it for us to join us again next week and also check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come on santa maria thanks for joining us to see your concert. in 2008 traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american 1st i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim to be elected to the united states congress. rewind islam in america on al-jazeera. but remember we're watching those few showers developing over the caspian sea a couple days ago they were drifting east to be this lot coming over afghanistan tajikistan they were big enough to produce flash flooding in tajikistan there are still a few showers around as you can see left overs the might be more

are a lot more of them then you might think and we're going to discuss that now with professor julian folger who's compiled a database of more than $700.00 quakes which were probably caused by human activity professor it's a pleasure to have you with us can you talk me through that. 2nd earthquake which i described there in north korea iran and what it was this earthquake which was 8 minutes afterwards it could have been simply a geological fault that had been induced to slip or it could possibly have been implosion of the huge cavity that's formed by the test it's well known that this occurs it's been observed many times for example at the nevada test site with american nuclear testing and following these tests there's such a disruption of the local stress fail that swarms of earthquakes often occur what's been to your knowledge the biggest of these human induced earthquakes the biggest earthquake which has been proposed on scientific grounds to have been human induced is the 2008 magnitude 7.9 when trying quake in the people's republic of china. this has been proposed to have been triggere

are a lot more of them then you might think and we're going to discuss that now with professor julian folger who's compiled a database of more than $700.00 quakes which were probably caused by human activity professor it's a pleasure to have you with us can you talk me through that. 2nd earthquake which i described there in north korea iran and what it was this earthquake which was 8 minutes afterwards it could have been simply a geological fault that had been induced to slip or it could possibly have been implosion of the huge cavity that's formed by the test it's well known that this occurs it's been observed many times for example at the nevada test site with american nuclear testing and following these tests there's such a disruption of the local stress fail that swarms of earthquakes often occur what's been to your knowledge the biggest of these human induced earthquakes the biggest earthquake which has been proposed on scientific grounds to have been here been induced is the 2008 magnitude 7.9 when trying a quake in the people's republic of china. this has been proposed to have been tr