Submission + - Japan Quake Raises Texas Aquifer 1 ft. (statesman.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Energy released from last week's massive earthquake in Japan affected the walls of the Edwards Aquifer, the sprawling underground rock formation that supplies drinking water for much of Central Texas, raising its water level by about one foot. The oscillations during high-energy earthquakes are common in artesian aquifers. "We saw Haiti, we saw Sumatra, Japan, a couple in Mexico and Alaska."