/sarc
It’s on taxpayer funded NPR so it must be true. They speak with British accents.
Karl Rove and his weather makin’ machine.
Thank God they have found a way to keep us from getting cheap energy.
The middle of the counrty had a seismic event that made the Mississippi river run backwards to create Real Foot Lake. Maybe this expert needs to go back to school and study the 3 quakes of the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812. We weren’t drilling then and did I mention the Mississippi flowed backwards?
More junk science from a government “scientist”. Shouldn’t Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran be having earthquakes 24/7?
Geez
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/seismicity/
This shows the cluster where there have historically been quakes. I see that the midwest cluster has all about the same intensity, and are located where plates meet.
Fracking will be next.
Anything that reduces our dependence on foreign oil is bad and must be suppressed. Sort of like the Saudis have some say in where we drill.
Well, yeah. You suck the oil out, there’s no more lube left, and the continents go dry and grind into each other.
Just spray some WD40 down there and it’ll be fine.
the sunspot cycle activity went flat line like Rosie’s career and Oparh’s network .. it’s the earth’s crust coooling and contracting,, no wait, I thought global varming was .. no wait ..
Over to you Hurl-aldo.. for more asstute analysis
If it’s a “government” study you can bet it’s B.S.
Ping.
Quake science! Seriously, when you pump stuff out of the ground, or crack rocks in an industrial scale, things are bound to shift.
So, even if this is true, why this is a big deal? Nobody has died from this. All quakes are minor. Earthquakes just sound scary, but these 3-4 Richter scale quakes are peanuts compared to real killers that happen NATURALLY!
Odd, this new seismicity map does not quite match the one I posted upthread.
If anything, these tiny earthquakes relieve pressure on existing fault lines and can only make us safer.
Probably Obama’s Arab pals have told him that he needs to stop the fracking, NOW! They’ve been looking for excuses. So, they offered this guy a nice fat promotion.
“Some settling of contents may occur”.
Pish posh!
Chuck Norris visits God’s Country—the middle states—as often as he can.
Chuck is so scary the makes the Earth shake. He can’t help it.
He can point a attractive women and say, “Booyah!” and the Earth moves.
He works out every few minutes to keep his heart rate down to one pulse a day, and his push-up routine actually pushes the Earth away from him. and then he pulls it back.
This is to be expected. No worries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uw5zCp-Dc