I read somewhere about a consensus ...
this is satire, right?
Facepalm.
Wastewater disposal has little to do with fracking. Most is disposal of wastewater that happens during the course of normal production. This is just another effort to try and tear down fracking.
Couldn’t they force the oil companies to drill deep shafts and install wooden supports like they do in mines?
It’s just democrats, aka low information voters, that are asking.
-PJ
want to know what’s causing the temblors—and what can be done to stop them.
Imagine substituting “temblors” with “solar flares”.
People have actually gotten to the point where they think there is no such thing as an “act of God” and everything is human modifiable.
The Great Spirit is angry because we haven’t changed the name of the state from the racist Oklahoma (red people).
Living here in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, everytime we get a shaker people call the police station. What are the cops supposed to do?
I’d laugh — hysterically — if I didn’t know that some idiot politicians may actually pass a law to stop fracking because some woman’s driveway was cracked by an earthquake.
This is Oklahoma, where the people at least seem a lot more sane than in other parts of the country. So hopefully reason will prevail.
Earthquakes? Did someone say increasing earthquakes? I did a quick search. . .I thought I had read the following earlier this year. . .beware Oklahoma. . . look up, America!
January 2014: Federal judge: Oklahoma ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/justice/oklahoma-gay-marriage/
Ask FEMA.
It's a fair question as to if it is solely plate tectonics or has a fracing effect contributing to the radical uptick in earthquake frequency.
Fracking is the main reason that Texas and Oklahoma’s economy has boomed.
THIS is the problem...
USGS last month started using this as an explanation. I emailed them the day they started it....calling them simply idiots. Unfortunately they never replied back....lol
From the USGS on every quake now in Oklahoma.....
nduced Seismicity
As is the case elsewhere in the world, there is evidence that some central and eastern North America earthquakes have been triggered or caused by human activities that have altered the stress conditions in earth’s crust sufficiently to induce faulting. Activities that have induced felt earthquakes in some geologic environments have included impoundment of water behind dams, injection of fluid into the earth’s crust, extraction of fluid or gas, and removal of rock in mining or quarrying operations. In much of eastern and central North America, the number of earthquakes suspected of having been induced is much smaller than the number of natural earthquakes, but in some regions, such as the south-central states of the U.S., a significant majority of recent earthquakes are thought by many seismologists to have been human-induced. Even within areas with many human-induced earthquakes, however, the activity that seems to induce seismicity at one location may be taking place at many other locations without inducing felt earthquakes. In addition, regions with frequent induced earthquakes may also be subject to damaging earthquakes that would have occurred independently of human activity. Making a strong scientific case for a causative link between a particular human activity and a particular sequence of earthquakes typically involves special studies devoted specifically to the question. Such investigations usually address the process by which the suspected triggering activity might have significantly altered stresses in the bedrock at the earthquake source, and they commonly address the ways in which the characteristics of the suspected human-triggered earthquakes differ from the characteristics of natural earthquakes in the region.
Oy veh, Ping.