Reno, Texas is about 100 miles Northeast of Dallas.
I guess the author thinks the fault lines that have existed long before the State did in the area just magically appeared without any prior earthquakes.
Posted on 11/30/2014 9:51:53 PM PST by shove_it
RENO, Texas — A Texas hamlet shaken by its first recorded earthquake last year and hundreds since then is among communities now taking steps to challenge the oil and gas industry's traditional supremacy over the right to frack.
Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: "I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?" one caller asked. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that Reno, a community about 50 miles west of Dallas, had its first earthquake.
Seismologists have looked into whether the tremors are being caused by disposal wells on the outskirts of Reno, where millions of gallons of water produced by hydraulic fracturing are injected every day. Reno took the first step toward what Stokes believes will be an outright ban by passing a law in April limiting disposal well activity to operators who can prove the injections won't cause earthquakes.
Reno and other cities are taking their lead from Denton, a university town north of Dallas where the state's first ban on fracking within city limits takes effect Tuesday. The Denton ban has become a "proxy for this big war between people who want to stop fracking and people who want to see it happen," said Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
It also has become a referendum on Texas cities' rights to halt drilling...
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Boo freakin hoo. Move to the States that don’t allow fracking.
Good luck with that. Houston tried to do the same thing with the state’s supremacy clause on firearms by banning gun shows. They got slapped down by every single level of the court system as the clause is clearly written and ended up having to pay a huge fine.
Then they had the gall to come ask the state legislature for money to fill the hole in their budget caused by their deliberate defiance of state laws passed by the state legislature. You can probably guess what the answer of the annoyed legislators was.
Witches on broomsticks and goblins.....
Oooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!
“I had a crack pipe, then boom!! Whole house shook Lawdy!! What was that?!”
That’s probably the extent of the ‘complaint’.
And the epicenter of the quake was located where?
Reno, Texas is about 100 miles Northeast of Dallas.
I guess the author thinks the fault lines that have existed long before the State did in the area just magically appeared without any prior earthquakes.
Just because it was the first earthquake “recorded” doesn’t mean it’s the first earthquake ever.
Fracking may "lubricate" the fault, so that smaller earthquakes happen more often. But, the alternative is: let the pressure build up, and released in one big earthquake.
I think I would choose smaller earthquakes, more often.
“.....millions of gallons of water produced by hydraulic fracturing are injected every day.”.......
Not to worry folks, with odumbo’s newly approved EPA regulations on the use of WATER, the fracking industry may be a thing of the past. Perhaps not right away but when they EXPAND those regulations, it more than likely will be included.
Lyndamyrth can frack off.
Not for nuthin, but if the price drops much more fracking will be an asterisk on the history of America’s financial collapse.
With all the fracking going on in Japan and Alaska I’m surprised they don’t have a lot more quakes.
Thackney
I’m curious so a quick question ... Do Tectonic (sp) plates have a measurable depth? (Median) and can we drill a hole to that depth?
TT
Sorry ... The Faults or basically from the top of the highest mountain to the bottom of the Marianas Trench is there an equivalent of a “Sea Level” for Tectonic Plates and can we drill that deep?
TT
A simple summary can be found at the wiki for explanations, but the lithosphere is the upper and solid part of the mantle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithosphere
It is broken up into the tectonic plates. The depth is typically consider the limit of where this is still brittle material and not yet thick fluid. Understand it is not sudden transition, but it just keeps getting hotter until the rock is soft as you go deeper. About 1,800°F and the rock gets soft enough to consider the end of the lithosphere or the bottom of the plates.
The depth of this varies from 25 miles to ~175 miles deep. Ocean is typically thinner.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deep drilling ever done, ~7.5 miles deep.
Thank you
Good study material
TT
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