. The Gulf is considered aseismic; however mild tremors have been recorded throughout history (usually 5.0 or less on the Richter magnitude scale) Earthquakes may be caused by interactions between sediment loading on the sea floor and adjustment by the crust, Houston Texas Business Directory, German Irish and English Americans are the three largest European ancestry groups in Texas German Americans make up 11.3 percent of the population and number over 2.7 million members Irish Americans make up 8.2 percent of the population and number over 1.9 million members There are roughly 600,000 French Americans and 472,000 Italian Americans residing in Texas; these two ethnic groups make up 2.5 percent and 2.0 percent of the population respectively in the 1980 United States Census the largest ancestry group reported in Texas was English with 3,083,323 Texans citing they were of English or mostly English ancestry making them 27 percent of the state at the time. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies (the census of 1790 gives 48% of the population of English ancestry; together 12% Scots and Scots-Irish; 4.5% Irish South 90% were Protestant and 3% Welsh = 67.5% British; 13% were German Swiss Dutch and French Huguenots; 19% African-American Colin Bonwick the American Revolution 1991 p 254) and thus many of them today identify as "American" in ancestry though they are of predominantly British stock. There are nearly 200,000 Czech-Americans living in Texas the largest number of any state. .
Per the 2010 US Census records the five most populous counties are:, (39) 106 Much of Houston's success as a petrochemical complex is due to its busy man-made ship channel the Port of Houston the port ranks first in the country in international commerce and is the sixth-largest port in the world Amid other U.S ports it is the busiest in foreign tonnage and second in overall tonnage Because of these economic trades many residents have moved to Houston from other U.S states as well as hundreds of countries worldwide. 7.1 Classical See also: List of films set in Houston. 1943 1944 1945 onwards, 4 Media The Rice Lofts (formerly the Rice Hotel).
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