Posted on 04/21/2015 7:37:21 PM PDT by Star Traveler
The New Madrid fault produced a 7.0 earthquake 200 years ago. The Mississippi river flowed backwards. This is a geologically unstable area. I believe the injection of fluids underground simply relieve stress along fault lines. The fault lines exist. The smaller quakes relieve the stress and actually prevent a major, large area catastrophe.
No, but the implication is increasing in frequency and distribution.
We’re hundreds of miles from New Madrid.
There’s not a lot of socialist Luddites in this OIL STATE f Oklahoma, with their top-to-bottom Republican government and its long-standing oil industry. When you see certain positions taken in THIS STATE that’s the time you “take notice” because of the type of state Oklahoma is ... :-) ...
LOL ...
They always do.
Increasing seismic activity by the Humboldt Fault (as that map shows) can also indicate possible volcanism. They going to blame that on fracking too if they end up with new volcanoes?
The State of Oklahoma is saying that it is only certain wells, and the state is in the process of identifying them so that they can avoid this kind of damage that has been happening in Oklahoma. In other words Oklahoma says it’s not all of them, but only a certain number and that they’ll find out how to identify them.
This is a problem that came into prominence only since 2009, so the State of Oklahoma is still working on it ... :-) ...
Jesus. He talked about this you know.
It IS a ridge-fault, and there is an enormous amount of igneous rock along the Humboldt fault dating back to the North American Ridge.
“... ignores Kansas’s opinion ...”
LOL ... in Oklahoma we don’t pay attention to Kansas ... :-) ...
This is localized ... :-) ...
It seems that if they could prove what they say, it would be their trophy
to bash everybody with. And I'm not seeing that unless I'm missing something.
Was fracking mentioned?
I think you already know what I’ve said about the coming of the Messiah of Israel, so I don’t have to repeat that. But even so, I don’t think this situation in Oklahoma relates to that.
Yeah, read the technical papers. Get past the political fluff on 3/4 of the website, and read the science.
Basically, they say that they cannot say with a high level of certainty that wastewater injection and/or fracking is the ultimate cause of these earthquakes; nor do they think that it can be proven to be at this point in time, given the current state of knowledge (or lack thereof) on:
* earthquake locations, depths, frequency in the areas in question;
* the mechanics and behavior of earthquakes;
* historical occurrence of earthquakes in the areas in question;
* uncertainties in accurately determining specifics of subsurface fluid flow, and pressure diffusion;
* the complexity of local subsurface geologic features that can affect fluid flow, pressure diffusion and how these might affect local fault systems.
Basically, the gist of it is that it looks like high pressure injection of fluids into the subsurface might induce earthquakes, but we don’t know enough on how things work in the subsurface to even begin to prove such a link. But we are going to do something about it anyway.
Exactly the same thing that has been said for nearly 80 years on this subject.
Sounds exactly like AGW, except with no scientific fraud... yet.
Well, I would trust the STATE OF OKLAHOMA, as an oil state, to find out the answer. It may take a few years, but I do have confidence in my state to arrive at the right answer.
More likely the New Madrid than waste water.
Apparently looking at facts, reasoning, applying logic, have no place in this thread. I’m dumber after having read through the replies - but thanks for trying.
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