“HE SAYS SORRY GREENEYES” ??? Twilight zone!!
I know nothing about this guy, and most of the thread goes right over my head - those states and pictures are from over a period of years...
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Well, yes, I’m no geologist or anything along those lines. What little I know, is from listening to DUTCHSINSE(DS), and following some of his links.
As I understand the role of fracking, is not that it causes earth quakes, but when there is pressure from plates shifting that pressure gets relieved at the path of least resistance.
I have watched as DS notes EQuake on West Coast and he predicts one in the New Madrid zone. Sure enough a few days later, there will be activity in Ok. and Mo. The larger amount is usually in Ok. And when we zoom in to take a look it’s always around an oil pumping area.
So I have a few times posted that I thought Oklahoma was keeping Mo from having larger quakes, due to those fracking sites.
What this guy said was “Sorry greenies, quakes in Ok where not due to fracking. They omitted the quakes in the 80’s to give the false correlation.”
So I misread the twitter feed(greenies vs greeneyes)—happens if I don’t have extra large print. And I didn’t see anything in those graphs that proved they omitted any quakes.
And in fact one graph shows a clear increase in quakes during increased oil production—I think that was Kansas though.
In the conclusion, they also said some of the quakes were due to oil production and some was due to this new rift-If I understood it correctly.
So the evidence he presented somewhat refutes his claim regarding fracking, but most of it had zero to do with Oklahoma—other than that’s the beginning. Still looking at the OK map and trying to figure it out.
Living in the New Madrid Fault area, I really should study it so I understand it better, I think, but that would take away from Q time. LOL
IIRC, if it *is* duchinsense I am thinking of, he also looks at propagation of earthquake waves across the globe taking into account the 3-D shape of the planet.
Also — one must look at where plates impinge on one another, as well as being mindful of the depth at which earthquakes occur. IIRC most fracking is far to shallow to be causing earthquakes directly; one would have to know a lot more geophysics than I to know if the pumping in of the replacement salt water and the subsequent interactions of that water with subsurface rock (including, say, flow, in areas which oil it too viscous to penetrate), would do anything to affect things...