Posted on 12/26/2014 6:59:57 PM PST by Star Traveler
There have been more than 500 magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma this year, up significantly from 109 in 2013 and just 35 in 2012, according to U.S. Geological Survey officials.
As of Monday, there were 549 of the higher magnitude quakes in 2014, with 19 being magnitude 4.0 or greater.
USGS officials focused on magnitude 3.0 or greater quakes because the smaller the magnitude, the more potential there is for missing an event, USGS Geophysicist Robert Williams said.
The USGS is looking into the increase in earthquakes, mostly occurring in central and north-central Oklahoma, he said.
“Starting probably in 2009, we started to notice the jump in earthquakes, even though it was small back then, relative to 2014,” Williams said.
A new scientific group focused on studying induced seismicity has been formed. There probably are six to 10 researchers working on the issue, with about four or five working full time now, according to Williams.
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It’s climate change caused by fracking the whales.
Earthquakes Skyrocket Making Oklahoma Residents Nervous
http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/earthquakes-skyrocket-making-oklahoma-residents-nervous/
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Maybe oil is in the ground for a purpose other than powering automobiles...
In your opinion, do you attribute the increased number of earthquakes to any Fracking done in the area? That’s what some are beginning to say.
Alful close to Yellowstone....
We’re really not that close to Yellowstone.
I’m in Oklahoma right now. Nobody is nervous.
I really don’t know when fracking picked up here, so I couldn’t say from my own knowledge, but I am aware of those who say it correlates.
What I do know is that when I first got to Oklahoma (again, from being here before) I directly saw this absolutely dramatic increase in earthquakes, and we’ve had the house rocking back and forth a number of times!
I’m there too ... But you seem to be unaware of those picking up earthquake insurance out of that nervousness. If you went back a decade or so and asked if someone in Oklahoma was going to pick up earthquake insurance on their house, they would have been “laughed out of the state” ... :-) ...
People are NOT laughing now, or if they do it’s a “very nervous laugh” ...
We’ve been looking into getting earthquake insurance ... in OKLAHOMA, no less!
Luke 21:11 (ESV)
11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
You know ... in the past, there really has not been any kind of dramatic increase in earthquakes, worldwide ... BUT ... what is going on here certainly classifies as that kind of dramatic increase in earthquakes ... it’s absolutely unprecedented here.
Where the earth’s magnetic field goes, so does the outer core (mostly iron, under the mantle). The fun might increase in speed and magnitude, when magnetic north is about 25 degrees latitude. It’s difficult to tell where magnetic north is from here on, though. The NOAA recently revised data (to show more consistency and less increase in speed of magnetic north movement toward Russia) that was previously collected, and magnetic north is harder to find with the field weakening (due to the ongoing movement).
Back after the Oklahoma City bombings, UFO/conspiracy theory extremists claimed the initial reporters on the scene were focused on an underground tunnel complex exposed by the blast, which then ushered in about 20 other Illuminati/Bilderberger/NWO/UFO/alien/you name it CTs.
Of course, if they exist and were being extended, they might nicely explain the continuing seismic activity in the area,...at least moreso than fracking, although both are probably off by several orders of magnitude in observable energy release in the seismic activity.
The Oklahoma City bombing didn’t rock houses back and forth in Tulsa, but several earthquakes have done so in Tulsa in the last several years.
They must not have built the tunnels that far back then...<;^)
The USGS did issue a “first” in the way of an earthquake warning — it was the first for east of the Rockies!
I saw the warning from USGS earlier this year, but saw no mention of the mole people. But “really” ... earthquakes like this in Oklahoma?!
A decade ago, you would have been laughed off Free Republic for saying that Oklahoma was going to have this number of earthquakes ... :-) ...
Maybe magma is creeping up through the crust right under OK! Imagine a volcano there!
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