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BP Blowout Causing Arkansas Earthquake Clusters?
Survivalist News ^ | 07/03/2010

Posted on 07/03/2010 4:10:34 PM PDT by EBH

Do an experiment for me. Take a balloon, inflate it. Get two books and place one on each side of the balloon opposite each other. Now deflate the balloon and notice what happens to the books. The books shift towards each other.

The massive pressurized oil and methane reserve now blowing out south of the Louisiana coast is just like a the deflating balloon. As this reserve empties a huge cavern is being created under the gulf floor. Usually these caverns are back filled with seawater as the oil is removed to stop a catastrophic collapse and make extracting the oil easier. Unfortunately the BP blow out is not being equalized in this manner.

Could the shifting walls of the oil cavern cause the earthquake swarms in Arkansas? Will the quakes grow in magnitude as more oil and methane is released? Could the shifting wall of the oil cavern destabilize the New Madrid fault? How big of a tsunami would be created if the oil cavern collapses?

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To: gitmo
Yo Git. Heheh. Seriously. As I wrote that, I realized that how should I say, I made a in-accurate statement.
It would have been on my part to be more accurate and use the term horse ***t. My mistake. Forgive my mistake.
I was critizing the BS/HS the author set forth, then did the same thing. Produced a BS/HS statement.
Shame on me. Your correction was received with good vibes. But if otherwise. I deserved the correction.
81 posted on 07/03/2010 9:26:43 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: uglybiker

LOL Now I’m glad I didn’t hit the link.


82 posted on 07/03/2010 10:38:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: All

“Good heavens, Habibi! Hold it in!!!”

Sorry. The medications wore off for a few hours there. I thought I was going to get a series on the Discovery Channel for a moment.

I’m better now.


83 posted on 07/03/2010 10:43:40 PM PDT by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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To: Candor7

Too funny! You have a unique imagination. Hmmmmm....I wonder who BO would sacrifice? A family member? Nah...the volcano would spit her back out.


84 posted on 07/03/2010 10:48:49 PM PDT by azishot
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To: hennie pennie; Halgr

:-)


85 posted on 07/03/2010 11:03:14 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: azishot
Well its worth a try but I don't know as she would qualify for the EPA Virgin Sacrifice Department....but perhaps with a little sugery? LOL./s

She would make things worse, and we would go down the slippery slope to Environmental catastrophe all the more quickly! /s

But it would be great to recruit her! LOL.

86 posted on 07/03/2010 11:13:07 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: Candor7
But it would be great to recruit her!

YOU recruit her. She scares me.

87 posted on 07/03/2010 11:17:28 PM PDT by azishot
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To: azishot

She scares you? She is just all noise! Give her a garden, some plants,a set of weights, a man to beat around,and warm up the volcano!LOL.


88 posted on 07/03/2010 11:22:15 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: azishot

BTW, you might want to check this thread out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2546639/posts?page=9#9


89 posted on 07/03/2010 11:24:18 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: Candor7

Wow! Thanks for the head’s up.


90 posted on 07/03/2010 11:29:45 PM PDT by azishot
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I think it’s kinda like that global warming thingy. ;o)


91 posted on 07/04/2010 1:37:26 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: EBH
The massive pressurized oil and methane reserve now blowing out south of the Louisiana coast is just like a the deflating balloon. As this reserve empties a huge cavern is being created under the gulf floor.

No.

To explain: an oil reservoir is not a 'cavern', not a balloon, but the small void spaces left between grains of porous rock. The reservoir itself can be envisioned by taking a sack of marbles and dumping them in a glass. If you look, there is space between the marbles, and those spaces are interconnected. The marbles dont flaot when the glass is filled with water, but stick a straw in there and you can suck the water out.

On a smaller scale, the spaces between sand grains work the same way. On a larger scale, so does the reservoir of an oil or gas field, with innumerable smaller pores connected, filled with oil and gas. Remove the oil and gas, and while some settling may occur, there is no cavern to collapse, the contact between the grains that supported the caprock will continue to support it, because it was never one big void. The gas dissolved in the oil expands as the pressure is lowered by producing oil and fills the pore space nicely, but the grains in the rock do the heavy lifting, the oil and gas just fill the leftover space.

Notice, as you suck the water out of the glass full of marbles, the marbles don't collapse. Neither will the rock in the gulf.

92 posted on 07/04/2010 1:47:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: The Comedian

oil is a naturally occurring substance that has leaked about 800,000 thousand gallons a day into the gulf of mexico through natural cracks in the floor of the gulf. It has done so for millions and millions of years.

comparing it to an ebola virus makes less sense than the earth quake.


93 posted on 07/04/2010 4:21:58 AM PDT by crescen7 (game on)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thank you!!

An awesome analogy, much better than I’ve seen. I knew FReepers would blow this one out!! (pun intended)


94 posted on 07/04/2010 5:59:42 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: crescen7
comparing it to an ebola virus makes less sense than the earth quake.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

95 posted on 07/04/2010 6:54:23 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: hennie pennie; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks hennie pennie and Ernest.
Could the shifting walls of the oil cavern cause the earthquake swarms in Arkansas? Will the quakes grow in magnitude as more oil and methane is released? Could the shifting wall of the oil cavern destabilize the New Madrid fault? How big of a tsunami would be created if the oil cavern collapses?
No. Next!

"Oil cavern"?
 
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96 posted on 07/04/2010 7:45:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Palladin

There are swarms of small earthquakes in Arkansas and other states around the New Madrid fault zone all the time.

The innumerable factual inaccuracies of the original post seem to have been well-dealt with by others.


97 posted on 07/04/2010 7:59:07 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: SunkenCiv

thx thx


98 posted on 07/04/2010 8:00:55 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: Strategerist; SunkenCiv
It has to be the ghost of Elvis. IT JUST HAS TO BE!!


99 posted on 07/04/2010 8:04:24 AM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: gitmo

Funny, I’ve owned lots of horses but never had one deposit bullshit before.


ROBUST GUFFAWS....THX.

Best get out the door to church.


100 posted on 07/04/2010 8:05:38 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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