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To: Spktyr
Nobody’s fracking where these earthquakes are, genius. The fracking is in the S and SW parts of the state, this is in central east, hundreds of miles away.

I can't imagine that anyone with half a brain would believe that fracking shale would cause an earthquake. The amount of energy required to cause a 5.2 earthquake, which is the equivalent of more than 480 metric tons of TNT, is not possible when fracking.

Besides Shale is soft compared to bedrock. I don't believe that shale rubbing together would cause seismic activity on that scale.

161 posted on 11/06/2011 4:57:48 AM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr

” I can’t imagine that anyone with half a brain would believe that fracking shale would cause an earthquake. “

Libs - who, by definition, have half-a-brain (or less), believe it as a matter of faith....


163 posted on 11/06/2011 5:02:07 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: raybbr

About fracking causing earthquakes, I highly doubt it, but it just burns me to know end that the greenies are trying to turn this into some sort of cheapo version of a 1970’s era Irwin Allen disaster movie. B-P


182 posted on 11/06/2011 1:16:22 PM PST by Nowhere Man ("People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people." - V for Vendetta)
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