Posted on 04/04/2015 8:28:04 AM PDT by rktman
Many scientists disagree. They say those quakes, and thousands of others before and since, are mainly the work of humans, caused by wells used to bury vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas exploration deep in the earth near fault zones. And they warn that continuing to entomb such huge quantities risks more dangerous tremors — if not here, then elsewhere in the state’s sprawling well fields.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Possibly .22 Win Mag rounds, but I still suspect those .44 mags.
If you shoot at the sun with a .50 caliber handgun, there is about a 10% chance you can put it out.
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.
Flaming faucets? Who knew? Chevy pick ups bursting in to flames from outboard fuel tanks thanks to some charges being properly placed. Gotta love the lsm. They would NEVER lie to us. There is no shortage of IPOS/SPOS/LPOS/SPOS who buy their spiel.
Hmmmm. 89519 sound pretty close to 89506. LOL! Any thermal activity near you?
Another crisis the communist gov’t will not want to let go to waste.
Those gun things are dangerous.
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.
They have only been doing hydro frac in the area for half a century before this.
I wonder how all those fault lines got in this area before hydro francs ever started?
I wonder why areas that have far more hydro frac and disposal injection do not have quakes?
And that is an excellent use of the water as there is no net gain in reservoir fluids.
Maybe the solution is more injection wells spaced out. This started happening with an uptick in disposal volume. At the volumes being injected now, there clearly is an effect.
We don’t agree on the clarity.
Just Chicken Little in a bit of wilding.....
And cell phones cause brain cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/global/the-facts-on-fracking.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/g161/top-10-myths-about-natural-gas-drilling-6386593/
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/411381/myth-making-about-fracking-texas-tremors-kevin-d-williamson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3275016/posts
I am typically a skeptic of these claims. But IMO there is a connection. Your mileage and opinion may vary.
I think they are injecting into very old fault zones in that part of Oklahoma and that is why injection is different there.
Seriously, hydraulic fracturing and waste water disposal started a several decades earlier in that area.
I think it is the vibration from all of those wind generators in western oklahoma. :)
Brown found a similar earthquake outbreak in the 1950s, when Oklahoma did not have equipment to properly measure seismic activity.
He also said those quakes may have been related to activity around the world, noting a similar spike in massive earthquakes worldwide since 2002.
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