2. Many scientists?
3. Frickin' frackin'.
4. If we're not careful, we may unleash some of that several million degree heat trapped in the center of the erf.
They’re wrong. It’s globull warming.
The thing these articles (and evidently scientists) don’t bother to consider is that any earthquake activity is a function of stresses in the tectonic plates. These stresses will be relieved one way or another since they do continue to build up, and rock is only so strong. Eventually something has to give.
By intervening via frakking or putting in repositories underground, we’re actually stopping the stress build up early yielding a minor quake instead of the eventual major one.
I mean this shouldn’t be rocket science. Energy is energy. It can pop off in small bits, or add up to one really big hit.
Many quacks, more like. Politicized “science” is anything but.
“Fingers point”
It’s like Katy Couric asking “People say....”
Finger pointing is not science............
All disasters and discomforts are human caused because that way lies government control and restriction of activities.
I will say this. I support fracking and oil and gas extraction, but we should come up a way to treat this water instead of injecting it back. It might be more expensive, but it is getting impossible to ignore a very viable linkage between injection wells in this area and earthquakes.
Good grief ... there are fault lines in OK just as there are in TX ... some of them connected. TX fault lines have been very active around Irving ... not much frac’ing going on there. It’s natural. These anti-oil folks need to just shut up because they’re making themselves sound dumb.
Anybody that watches the quake lists periodically can see the cluster of quakes in the area; the start coincides with fracking, and the ongoing damage is undeniable. The extremes of stop fracking or ignore the plight of residents are no answers. In the rush to frack, I wonder what long-term problems we might be setting up by pumping waste back into the ground. Earthquakes might not be the only problem. Anyway, sure glad I don’t live there.
Another crisis the communist gov’t will not want to let go to waste.
Wait, I have a better headline: “NY Times reporter failed basic high school American history.”
Just HOW much “fracking” and deep oil well drilling was going on before the New Madrid fault let loose in the mid 1800s with so much force it REVERSED the flow of the Mississippi river?
Repeat after me: “Post hoc, ergo propter hoc” so-called reasoning is no way to go through life, much less stupid - unless you want to wind up as a reporter at the NYT.
Just Chicken Little in a bit of wilding.....
I think it is the vibration from all of those wind generators in western oklahoma. :)
Carbon cultists should be mindful of these events as they hatch their plans to store CO2 deep in the earth.
As an aside, why can’t the drillers clean up and re-use that water for more drilling?