The federal government seeks to shut down fracking.
The media agrees.
Together they sensationalize quakes that rarely are perceived let alone cause damage. Almost every week here in Dallas I hear the same local reports. I’ve never felt a quake or seen damage by one. 4.0 is almost imperceptible. Most of these are 2.0 or lower.
There are a million such quakes every year in the us.
I have no idea if the Federal a Government seeks to shut down fracking or not ... but I doubt it, because of how much is going on now. But, let’s say for the sake of argument that they are ... that would be another issue ... while the issue here is the unpecented and dramatic increase in earthquakes here in Oklahoma where it hasn’t gone on before.
Then you have an unprecedented warning from the USGS (this year) that there is a higher likelihood of a stronger quake coming in the future, where these quakes are either leading up to it or an indicator of it coming.
But as far as “sensationalizing it” ... you can’t sensationalize what people have already picked up on their own, apart from the media. I’ve already filed several reports with the USGS where earthquakes have shaken the house, and we’ve noticed cracks in the outside stonework that wasn’t there before (back prior to the dramatic increase of the last few years.
I have been woken up before, I have seen the house rolling back and forth as things are swaying inside, I have been here when everyone in the house just stopped dead and wondered when it was going to stop. This simply did not hsppen at this frequency before a few years ago.
When you go from numbers like anywhere from 1 to 3 of them a year ... to over 500 a year, as we speak right now ... That doesn’t take anyone on the outside sensationalizing it ... the people here in Oklahoma KNOW, without a doubt, that “something is up” and different right now.
But after having said all that, I still don’t know what the dramatic increase in Oklahoma earthquakes has to do with Saudi Arabia ... :-) ... you got me there ...
Agree that it's not worth shutting down fracking which may have nothing to do with the quakes.
However, these quakes are perceptible. We felt two at work (two that were over 4.0) here in middle Kansas. Yep, they occurred in Oklahoma and we felt in central Kansas. That was the first time my co-workers had ever felt an earthquake and two have lived here all their lives and the other for 25 years and we felt them and so did a whole bunch of people in town. Even as north as Manhattan KS felt the two that were over 4.0.