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Well, all of Houston is built on an ancient swamp.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with all the oil and fracking they do in Texas.

This comment is made in a science sub?

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a [Houston] on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, [pardner], the strongest [Houston] in all of [Texas].

Right. Katy was a rice farm before it was Katy, and the whole area around highway 6 and to the west is a flood plain. It was never built on until 20 or so years ago due to that fact. What did they think was going to happen?

Based on the article it sounds like the subsidence is caused by the extraction of underground oil and water

Yeah - so? From the article:

>Meanwhile for other areas such as Mont Belvieu, subsidence can be attributed to the heavy withdrawal of local oil and natural gas reserves.

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It's been scientifically proven that geothermal causes earthquakes, so why not.