[GonzoII]

Why am I doubtful?

[GonzoII]

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[Olog-hai]

About as believable as “global warming”. Not like the extant fault lines are to blame, eh?

[Smokin' Joe]

This isn't fracking, this is from disposal wells injecting production water. Yes, this has been shown to cause small earthquakes in the immediate vicinity of the injection wells in some locations.

Why 'fracking' was used is beyond me (/s), because there is some water produced with almost all oil and most gas. that production water is commonly disposed of in injection wells, whether the well was hydraulically fractured or not, and the amount of produced water will eventually exceed multiples of the volume of frac fluid.

[Jim Robinson]

The government has no credibility whatsoever.

[SierraWasp]

This is such crappola!!!

The earth cannot even feel these mosquito bites!!!

They stopped the building of a major multi-purpose hydro-electric-flood control dam and reservoir at Auburn, CA when it was 2/3rds completed 35 years ago on the basis of "reservoir induced seismicity!"

All this is a huge stinking pant-load by the anti-everything economically progressive crowd… even the anti-American progress crowd!!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Hmmmm. Might have reduced the chances of a bigger quake in the future.

[SpaceBar]

An earthquake isn’t an earthquake isn’t an earthquake. While it is true that subsidence due to withdrawing wells and stresses from injection wells can cause minor seismic activity, we’re talking orders of magnitude smaller than plate subduction or midoceanic transform fault activity. The sediments that host wells are usually mechanically weak and dissipate energy quickly and relatively benignly. Usually it’s just a nuisance to local residents. Problems associated with it can be cracking foundations and other structural problems to buildings, sewers etc.

[marron]

Its pathetic. You can’t believe anything coming out of this regime. Nothing. There isn’t anything that isn’t politicized.

And precious few people who have served in this government have their integrity intact. Just having held a government job during O’s time in office calls your honor into question.

[AZLiberty]

After the next big one in California, they should start injecting water immediately so that stresses are relieved over time through smaller earthquakes rather than as one super quake.

[DH]

I’m perfectly sure that this story is true. After all, it’s from the government...and they surely would not lie to us in the name of environmental extremism would they?

/Sarc

[trebb]

Kind of like blaming a homeowner for over watering his garden when his house is swallowed by a sinkhole...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So, why is it that the 4 CORNERS area which has tens of thousands of gas wells is still stable?

[Cen-Tejas]

Ditto!

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Better the tremors locally than having to bomb muslims internationally. Stop giving tons of money to merciless lazy jerks and spend a tiny portion of your gas dollars making a little stronger structure. The earth aint gonna explode like California, it’s not a major fault with volcanoes coming, it’s only gonna shake a little.