All those greens suffer no earthquakes, and it looks like 99% of drilling
are without the accusation being thrown at them. Facts just get in the way.
Posted on 04/21/2015 7:37:21 PM PDT by Star Traveler
In November of 2011, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake ripped through the small Oklahoma town of Prague, damaging more than a dozen homes and toppling a turret on a St. Gregory's University building in nearby Shawnee.
It was the worst of three large quakes to strike the area over several days, and it still as ranks as the worst Oklahoma has ever experienced. Since then, hundreds more have rattled the state, racking up millions of dollars in damages and unleashing a political and financial maelstrom.
Until 2008, Oklahoma typically had one or two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater per year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey; since the start of 2015, the state has averaged 2 of this strength or greater per day.
"We have a good record going all the way back to the 1970s of magnitude 3 or larger earthquakes. They increased throughout the central U.S. in 2009, but primarily in just a few states like southern Colorado, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma," says Bill Leith, senior science adviser for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards at USGS. "Oklahoma is the most striking case, where the number of earthquakes is now at record levels."
And a growing body of scientific research increasingly connects this upsurge in seismic activity with the recent boom in oil and gas production.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
California has two 3.0 earthquakes every minute.
Earthquakes are the “fracking is evil line du jour”. Most people will not even notice a quake of 3 on the Richter scale. That level of quake happens over a million times per year and does not cause property damage. It’s an exponential scale, where a level 3 is 10 times more powerful than a level 2. Few humans can tell a 2 happened.
Well, Oklahoma is working on it and will find out the answers and announce it to the rest of the country ... :-) ...
I suspect an eschatological indication.
Climate change. Next!
/hyperbole
Hyperbole has a fraction of truth.
Kansas-Oklahoma currently exhibits 3.5 times the mag 2.5+ earthquakes California does.
Well, I can tell you that I’ve actually noticed the earthquakes and have put in several online USGS reports. There have been times I’ve been woken up out of a sleep at night, and other times during the day and evening. One time I remember that three of us in the house were wondering what on earth was going on as the house “rocked and rolled” ... :-) ... with things swinging and swaying in the house. We’ve developed cracks in the outside stonework because of these quakes, too. People are starting to grab earthquake insurance now, too ... LOL ...
And in addition, beyond the “noticing” part, buildings in many places in the state are being damaged, too ... something that didn’t happen at this frequency ... going back a decade. It all started picking up dramatically around 2009.
This is in a limited area and not worldwide ... :-) ...
That’s all very commendable.
BTW, wait till ya see the ceiling drywall being chipped away by violently swinging chandeliers...
7’ tall hutches slamming the floor, with the next jolt throwing them upright against the wall. The ground turns to an oatmeal like substance, liquefaction, with buildings bobbing up and down like small boats.
Whoopteedowahshleep.
Mah ol' home town.
Ain't been nuthin' shakin' 'round thar since the Class of '56 left town.
A great place to grow up.
Oklahoma worries over swarm of earthquakes and connection to oil industry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/oklahoma-worries-over-swarm-of-earthquakes-and-connection-to-oil-industry/2015/01/28/eca21234-a71a-11e4-a2b2-776095f393b2_story.html
GUTHRIE, Okla. – The earthquakes come nearly every day now, cracking drywall, popping floor tiles and rattling kitchen cabinets. On Monday, three quakes hit this historic land-rush town in 24 hours, booming and rumbling like the end of the world.
“After a while, you can’t even tell what’s a pre-shock or an after-shock. The ground just keeps moving,” said Jason Murphey, 37, a Web developer who represents Guthrie in the state legislature. “People are so frustrated and scared. They want to know the state is doing something.”
What to do about the plague of earthquakes is, however, very much an open question in Oklahoma. Last year, 567 quakes of at least 3.0 magnitude rocked a swath of counties from the state capital to the Kansas line, alarming a populace long accustomed to fewer than two quakes a year.
Scientists implicated the oil and gas industry — in particular, the deep wastewater disposal wells that have been linked to a dramatic increase in seismic activity across the central United States. But in a state founded on oil wealth, officials have been reluctant to crack down on an industry that accounts for a third of the economy and one in five jobs.
With seismologists warning that the spreading earthquake swarms could trigger something far bigger and potentially deadly, pressure is building to follow the lead of other oil and gas-producing states and take more aggressive action.
State officials insist they are doing all they can to develop new regulations. In September, Gov. Mary Fallin (R) named a coordinating council to study seismic activity. And the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, an elected three-member panel that regulates oil and gas producers, has imposed new restrictions on wells in seismically active areas.
“We’ve taken a proactive approach,” said commissioner Dana Murphy (R).
But in Oklahoma — where the state monument is a Golden Driller that stands half as high as the Statue of Liberty; where an active oil rig still pumps on the grounds of the state capitol — politicians can move only so fast. Murphey, the lawmaker, called Murphy, the commissioner, “courageous” for abstaining from a vote to approve a disposal well north of Guthrie, even though the commission ultimately okayed the well.
Notice how, like on Apple threads, Star Traveler completely ignores Kansas’s opinion wastewater injection and continues a litany of anti-fracking news articles.
I don’t deny the huge increase in earthquakes, I find it fascinating.
However, fracking and wastewater injection is a 70 year old technology, and employed in an order of magnitude more in North Dakota, where exactly zero earthquakes occur, and have occurred over a 5 year period.
You’re talking about the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the 9.0 to 10.0 earthquakes there ... some of the biggest ones in the world’s history ... :-) ...
Further, earthquakes originate far below the depth of any hydraulic fracturing.
There is no relationship between fracking and earthquakes.
Those who promote this supposed connection are either socialist Luddites or their fellow travelers.
That’s what is happening in an “oil state”’- which Oklahoma is and is happening with a solid Republican government, which it is from top to bottom, and with a Republucan governor.
This change in the attitude of this oil state and top to bottom Republucan government is happening because people are getting shaken up (I’ve been in several so far) and there are a lot of homes getting damaged in the last few years. This is happening IN THE STATE and not with me ... LOL ...
All those greens suffer no earthquakes, and it looks like 99% of drilling
are without the accusation being thrown at them. Facts just get in the way.
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