Posted on 03/22/2014 8:43:05 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Edited on 03/23/2014 5:41:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LANGSTON, Okla. (AP) -- The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded 14 earthquakes in Oklahoma since about 9:30 p.m. Friday, the largest being a magnitude 4.0.
The 4.0 magnitude quake was recorded at 10:05 p.m. Friday about seven miles south of Langston. Three other quakes of magnitude 2.9, 3.0 and 3.3 were recorded Saturday afternoon in the Medford area.
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There's been quote a large uptick in earthquakes in Oklahoma over the last decade.
Are you familiar with the buried mountain range that runs pretty much underneath Interstate 35 down to the Arbuckles?
Not really ... is it starting to poke through? If so, why is it all happening just in the last few years?
It is a series of faults that run from north to south across the state. They are the cause of the earthquakes.
Those earthquakes are pretty far apart for a localized cause.
It’s all Oklahoma’s fault.
There you have it.
What does a fat comedian from the 1920s have to do with it?
no. what are you talking about
Maybe God is angry with Oklahoma.
“It’s all Oklahoma’s fault.”
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No, you doofus, it is BUSH’s fault :P
Uh, Lou Costello?
See the map on post 8. It is a series of faults from an ancient mountain range. Even though the mountains have long been eroded away, the faults can still move when Dick Chaney and Halliburton start fracing.
C A L D E R A ! ! ! AAAAAAAAH!
Better a bunch of 2.4s today than a 7.1 tomorrow.
It just has to be from fracking.
That is correct. I assume that the New Madrid Earthquake had little warning. Of course, not many people were living around there then.
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