Posted on 08/19/2019 7:09:06 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week — 11 earthquakes in five days.
It started with a magnitude-2.4 earthquake Wednesday morning just 2 1/2 miles southwest of Hutchinson, Kansas, in Reno County, according to the United States Geological Survey.
There would be 10 more before the week was out.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Earthquakes in diverse places.
Apparently only one was large enough to be felt.
Most of us wouldn’t notice a 2.4 if we tried.
This is likely some sort of anti-fracking propaganda.
“Grew up there. Don’t remember even one tremor.”
And no one will remember these. No one felt them.
"The second came just before 8 a.m. on Friday. The magnitude-4.2 shook the area, centered less than a mile southwest of Wednesday’s temblor. More than 1,000 people reported feeling the quake across Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, according to the USGS."
Most of us wouldn’t notice a 2.4 if we tried.
Yep, estimate up to 5,000 under 5.4 each year.
Thanks.
I was using a bit of hyperbole.
My point still stands.
More people will remember when a big truck drove by their house.
You are most likely correct.
It must have been caused by global warming.
I can remember feeling one off the Sabetha fault many years back< but down by Hutch — must be a salt mine collapse like the limestone mines that went out under the office building in Kansas City, Kansas about 2000.
Does “slam” and 2.4 magnitude even belong in the same story?
Do you suppose all the salt mines are a factor? Or maybe the conditions that led to the salt being there?
They are trying to spin up a narrative. You need some hyperbole for that
There is a big salt mine there. Twenty years ago, or so, it began erupting, blowing out several sink holes downtown and releasing noxious fumes that damaged buildings and hospitalized some folks. I was long gone by that time and only read about it. Tornados, yes. Earthquakes, sink holes and deadly gas, no. Not in Hutchinson!
It’s just the Ground settling
Yes, been wondering about that. I should go look up the quakes’ depths.
Lol. I could see that; higher atmospheric temps making atmospheric molecules slam into the earth’s surface with greater force, awakening old fault lines. ;-)
It is not the fracing that is causing the earthquakes. It is the disposal of all of the flowback water into the Arbuckle Limestone. The Arbuckle sits right on top of crystalline basement rock and that is where the faults are locating that are slipping. They need to start disposing in the Devonian, which is shallower and not connected up with the deeper faulting.
A 4.2 doesn’t raise an eyebrow in CA. Maybe if it’s on very soft ground there’s a bit of a rolling feeling.
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