Confirmed: Fracking responsible for earthquakes in Oklahoma

[JFK_USA]

What is the more shocking development is that Oklahoma accepted science!! Great day!!

 

[westwall]

What is the more shocking development is that Oklahoma accepted science!! Great day!!

There's more science going on in Oklahoma than you could ever understand in your whole life. Just sayin...

 

[Derideo_Te]

People can't feel them, really? I have a friend in Oklahoma who feels them. You don't know what you are talking about, and you are speaking for others when you are in no position to do so.

Yes, most people can't feel them. A magnitude 3.0 is detectable by someone laying in their bed and with no music on. A 3.5 can be detected by someone sitting down but most would think it a large truck passing by. The majority of quakes generated by fracking are 3.5 or less.

Blah, blah, blah...yada, yada, yada...You don't live there. You can't speak for others. You do not know what people feel or not. Grow up.

Oh piss off you silly little twerp. I presented you with facts. Facts that any geologist will confirm. The issue you have is they interfere with your irrational hatred of anything having to do with fracking, your unwillingness to learn even the basics of what's going on and your, reliance on juvenile emotion to color your arguments.

I suggest you do some growing up sweetie.

look who is calling someone else a twerp lol

I calls them like I see's them. And

Idiot....if there was no fracking there wouldn't be any need for disposal.....why are you so retarded?

if they could dispose elsewhere, there would be no earthquakes you idiot. that is like saying, if there were no cars there would be no smog. instead of getting rid of cars, you simply make the cars more environmental friendly.

i expect that will go over your head.

The question is, where are they going to dispose these millions of gallons of toxic water?

Does that mean fracking is off the hook? Not really. Many of the fluid-injection wells studied by the Science researchers—in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas and Ohio—have been in operation much longer than shale gas and oil fracking has been active. But each shale gas well can produce several million gallons of wastewater, and in much of the country, that wastewater is disposed by being pumped into one of the more than 30,000 deep disposal wells around the country. As the oil and gas industry likes to point out, underground disposal wells are an accepted way to dispose of wastewater, and they’ve been used for decades. But as the shale gas and oil boom ramps up, the industry will be producing vast amounts of wastewater tainted with sometimes toxic fracking chemicals. It’s worrying to know that there is growing scientific evidence linking those fluid-injection wells to earthquakes—even if so far the quakes that have been linked to the wells have all been relatively minor.

And considering how money hungry these oil millionaires are, I doubt that they will be wanting to spend the money to dispose of it. The point being made is that it isn't going to be as easy to get support for the fracking......that requires disposing of water.....get it?

And companies are exploring ways to effectively recycle that wastewater, though the reuse is generally more expensive and more cumbersome than simply injecting it into the deep wells.
Deep Disposal Wells From Drilling Not Fracking Linked to Quakes TIME.com

And, yet again...who cares. Something that is always overlooked is those toxic materials CAME from underground. Returning them to from whence they came is smart. Also the way water tables work they are FAR deeper than any aquifer that is used by people.

Except that they are drilling THROUGH the aquifer used by people and pumping the oil and the waste water THROUGH the aquifer.

How do they do that without contaminating the aquifer?

And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

 

[BullKurtz]

The water is highly toxic. The cost of cleaning it is cost prohibitive. Where else do you suggest disposing of it so that it won't contaminate the existing ground water?

Fracking is done FAR BELOW the water table.....for being a dumbass you sure better get better at lying.

 

[BullKurtz]

I kind of miss the nuclear explosions that they used to set off in the Nevada test site back in the 1980's. The blinds would rattle from the 4th floor up in the building where I worked in Las Vegas. The state made a big point to explain to us that this was really GOOD for Nevada.....

in the 1980's?

 

[Derideo_Te]

The water is highly toxic. The cost of cleaning it is cost prohibitive. Where else do you suggest disposing of it so that it won't contaminate the existing ground water?

Fracking is done FAR BELOW the water table.....for being a dumbass you sure better get better at lying.

The National Academy of Sciences knows better than you.

Then again 99% of the population does too.

 

[HenryBHough]

Now watch our ludicrous liberals blame the Nepal earthquake on fracking in fly-over country. Unless, of course, they just revert to type and blame Boooossshhhhh!

 

[BullKurtz]

The water is highly toxic. The cost of cleaning it is cost prohibitive. Where else do you suggest disposing of it so that it won't contaminate the existing ground water?

Fracking is done FAR BELOW the water table.....for being a dumbass you sure better get better at lying.

The National Academy of Sciences knows better than you.

Then again 99% of the population does too.

You're a lying sack of shit....you have no idea how deep water tables are or how deep the average fracking platform drills.

Fracking Drilling Past The Myths FreedomWorks

 

[westwall]

Yes, most people can't feel them. A magnitude 3.0 is detectable by someone laying in their bed and with no music on. A 3.5 can be detected by someone sitting down but most would think it a large truck passing by. The majority of quakes generated by fracking are 3.5 or less.

Blah, blah, blah...yada, yada, yada...You don't live there. You can't speak for others. You do not know what people feel or not. Grow up.

Oh piss off you silly little twerp. I presented you with facts. Facts that any geologist will confirm. The issue you have is they interfere with your irrational hatred of anything having to do with fracking, your unwillingness to learn even the basics of what's going on and your, reliance on juvenile emotion to color your arguments.

I suggest you do some growing up sweetie.

look who is calling someone else a twerp lol

I calls them like I see's them. And

if they could dispose elsewhere, there would be no earthquakes you idiot. that is like saying, if there were no cars there would be no smog. instead of getting rid of cars, you simply make the cars more environmental friendly.

i expect that will go over your head.

The question is, where are they going to dispose these millions of gallons of toxic water?

Does that mean fracking is off the hook? Not really. Many of the fluid-injection wells studied by the Science researchers—in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas and Ohio—have been in operation much longer than shale gas and oil fracking has been active. But each shale gas well can produce several million gallons of wastewater, and in much of the country, that wastewater is disposed by being pumped into one of the more than 30,000 deep disposal wells around the country. As the oil and gas industry likes to point out, underground disposal wells are an accepted way to dispose of wastewater, and they’ve been used for decades. But as the shale gas and oil boom ramps up, the industry will be producing vast amounts of wastewater tainted with sometimes toxic fracking chemicals. It’s worrying to know that there is growing scientific evidence linking those fluid-injection wells to earthquakes—even if so far the quakes that have been linked to the wells have all been relatively minor.

And considering how money hungry these oil millionaires are, I doubt that they will be wanting to spend the money to dispose of it. The point being made is that it isn't going to be as easy to get support for the fracking......that requires disposing of water.....get it?

And companies are exploring ways to effectively recycle that wastewater, though the reuse is generally more expensive and more cumbersome than simply injecting it into the deep wells.
Deep Disposal Wells From Drilling Not Fracking Linked to Quakes TIME.com

And, yet again...who cares. Something that is always overlooked is those toxic materials CAME from underground. Returning them to from whence they came is smart. Also the way water tables work they are FAR deeper than any aquifer that is used by people.

Except that they are drilling THROUGH the aquifer used by people and pumping the oil and the waste water THROUGH the aquifer.

How do they do that without contaminating the aquifer?

And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

 

[BullKurtz]

This idiot's NG line is leaking into his water well....he blames the flames on fracking.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Blah, blah, blah...yada, yada, yada...You don't live there. You can't speak for others. You do not know what people feel or not. Grow up.

Oh piss off you silly little twerp. I presented you with facts. Facts that any geologist will confirm. The issue you have is they interfere with your irrational hatred of anything having to do with fracking, your unwillingness to learn even the basics of what's going on and your, reliance on juvenile emotion to color your arguments.

I suggest you do some growing up sweetie.

look who is calling someone else a twerp lol

I calls them like I see's them. And

The question is, where are they going to dispose these millions of gallons of toxic water?

Does that mean fracking is off the hook? Not really. Many of the fluid-injection wells studied by the Science researchers—in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas and Ohio—have been in operation much longer than shale gas and oil fracking has been active. But each shale gas well can produce several million gallons of wastewater, and in much of the country, that wastewater is disposed by being pumped into one of the more than 30,000 deep disposal wells around the country. As the oil and gas industry likes to point out, underground disposal wells are an accepted way to dispose of wastewater, and they’ve been used for decades. But as the shale gas and oil boom ramps up, the industry will be producing vast amounts of wastewater tainted with sometimes toxic fracking chemicals. It’s worrying to know that there is growing scientific evidence linking those fluid-injection wells to earthquakes—even if so far the quakes that have been linked to the wells have all been relatively minor.

And considering how money hungry these oil millionaires are, I doubt that they will be wanting to spend the money to dispose of it. The point being made is that it isn't going to be as easy to get support for the fracking......that requires disposing of water.....get it?

And companies are exploring ways to effectively recycle that wastewater, though the reuse is generally more expensive and more cumbersome than simply injecting it into the deep wells.
Deep Disposal Wells From Drilling Not Fracking Linked to Quakes TIME.com

And, yet again...who cares. Something that is always overlooked is those toxic materials CAME from underground. Returning them to from whence they came is smart. Also the way water tables work they are FAR deeper than any aquifer that is used by people.

Except that they are drilling THROUGH the aquifer used by people and pumping the oil and the waste water THROUGH the aquifer.

How do they do that without contaminating the aquifer?

And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

 

[Derideo_Te]

The water is highly toxic. The cost of cleaning it is cost prohibitive. Where else do you suggest disposing of it so that it won't contaminate the existing ground water?

Fracking is done FAR BELOW the water table.....for being a dumbass you sure better get better at lying.

The National Academy of Sciences knows better than you.

Then again 99% of the population does too.

You're a lying sack of shit....you have no idea how deep water tables are or how deep the average fracking platform drills.

Fracking Drilling Past The Myths FreedomWorks

I suggest that you ask your buddy Westwall to explain how fracking drills through aquifers and then the pipes fail (up to 60% of the time) and contaminate the ground water.

 

[BullKurtz]

I suggest that you ask your buddy Westwall to explain how fracking drills through aquifers and then the pipes fail (up to 60% of the time) and contaminate the ground water.

I suggest you take a flying fuck through a rolling donut....the chemicals are FAR under the water table and do NOT and have NOT ever contaminated potable ground water.

 

[Two Thumbs]

The speculation is over, and revealing e-mails disclose that oil and gas millionaire
Harold Hamm has been trying to keep the fact that fracking may be responsible, under wraps.

Is it worth it?




Confirmed: Oklahoma Earthquakes Caused By Fracking
Despite the enormous increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma that started at the same time as heavy fracking began there—with the number of earthquakes over 3.0 magnitude skyrocketing from an average of less than two a year to 585 last year—the state has been in official denial about the cause.

Now the state has not only admitted that the injection into deep underground wells of fluid byproducts from drilling operations is behind the quakes, but it put up a website titledEarthquakes in Oklahoma that is a “one-stop source for information on earthquakes in Oklahoma.” The site includes an interactive map that displays the dramatic change not only in the number of earthquakes but in their distribution. Instead of a scattering around the state, they’re clustered heavily in areas where drilling operations are disposing of fracking wastewater.

The new website says, in a post dated April 21, “The Oklahoma Geological Survey announced today the majority of recent earthquakes in central and north-central Oklahoma are likely triggered by the injection of produced water in disposal wells.”
Confirmed Oklahoma Earthquakes Caused By Fracking EcoWatch


Hillary Clinton’s emails aren’t the only ones making news, at least not in Oklahoma. A trove of emails were released by the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS), which regulates the state’s oil and gas industries, in response to public records requests from news outlets such as Bloombergand EnergyWire. They appear to reveal that oil and gas billionaire Harold Hamm, known as the founding father of the U.S. fracking boom, inserted himself into the conversation about whether fracking was causing a dramatic upsurge in earthquakes in the state.


“Holland had been studying possible links between a rise in seismic activity in Oklahoma and the rapid increase in oil and gas production, the state’s largest industry,” wrote Bloomberg reporters Benjamin Elgin and Matthew Phillips. “Hamm requested that Holland be careful when publicly discussing the possible connection between oil and gas operations and a big jump in the number of earthquakes, which geological researchers were increasingly tying to the underground disposal of oil and gas wastewater, a byproduct of the fracking boom that Continental has helped pioneer.”

“It was just a little bit intimidating,” said Holland. When he emailed a colleague that he had been summoned to have “coffee” with Boren and Hamm, she replied, “Gosh, I guess that’s better than having Kool-Aid with them. I guess.”


Oil and Gas Billionaire Pressured Oklahoma Scientist to Ignore Fracking-Earthquake Link EcoWatch

how many times must you be told that 3.0 cannot be felt?

 

[jknowgood]

Confirmed? So not confirmed then. Got it. Why is everything man does so evil to you liberals? Why not release a virus to kill us horrible humans off so your precious mother earth might survive. You psycho nut job. Confirmed my ass.

Loonies like you is what makes the Republican party appear so uninformed. Yes, it has been confirmed.....read the article if you are able to read.

And, the last time I checked, it was right-wingers that were whining about all the evils.....baking cakes, delivering flowers. And, you idiot, you live in this "precious mother earth" too - and yeah, we want to protect it from idiots like you that would destroy it in a minute for immediate gratification.

Well if Obama would open the tiny bit of land in Alaska for drilling. It would make fracking to expensive to do. So regular drilling or fracking? The decision is in liberal hands, you choose fracking.

 

[BullKurtz]

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

Your link says 2-60% and most gas leaks are naturally occurring....like I said, other that your butt-buddy stats, nobody believes a word you say, schmuck.

 

[westwall]

Oh piss off you silly little twerp. I presented you with facts. Facts that any geologist will confirm. The issue you have is they interfere with your irrational hatred of anything having to do with fracking, your unwillingness to learn even the basics of what's going on and your, reliance on juvenile emotion to color your arguments.

I suggest you do some growing up sweetie.

look who is calling someone else a twerp lol

I calls them like I see's them. And

And, yet again...who cares. Something that is always overlooked is those toxic materials CAME from underground. Returning them to from whence they came is smart. Also the way water tables work they are FAR deeper than any aquifer that is used by people.

Except that they are drilling THROUGH the aquifer used by people and pumping the oil and the waste water THROUGH the aquifer.

How do they do that without contaminating the aquifer?

And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

If there were anything with a failure rate of 60% it would be closed down so that "study" lacks credibility. Show us where people are drinking toxic water. Well, water that wasn't toxic before the drilling in the first place.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Who cares. Back in the 1970's we were actively theorizing about the possibility of using fracking to reduce the pressure building up along major fault lines. The theory being that inducing thousands and thousands of small quakes would relive the pressure on the fault lines thus preventing large quakes like just Occurred in Nepal.

These quakes are so small that most people can't even feel them. Those that are felt cause no damage to speak of.

I suppose the people in Oklahoma are going to begin to care. And I wouldn't consider a 5.6 magnitude one so small that people can't even feel them. I bet if it was in your state, close to where you live, you might care.


The largest-ever recorded quake in Oklahoma was caused by the injection of wastewater, a byproduct of oil extraction, into the ground, new research confirms.

On Nov. 6, 2011, a series of earthquakes, including a 5.6-magnitude temblor, struck the rural town of Prague, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, crumbling homes in the area and damaging a federal highway. The quake could be felt as far away as Milwaukee.
Oil Extraction Causes Biggest Recorded Earthquake in Oklahoma

I've lived through several that were magnitude 7 or above. Homes that are built well have no problem with magnitude 6 or below. The issue is quakes do occur in the central US, but they are so uncommon that the building codes don't reflect their existence.

The New Madrid quakes back in 1812 (magnitude 8.2+) made the Mississippi river flow backwards for three days, and when another one of those hits it will lay waste to whichever region it hits.

You were lucky. I was in California during the 1994 earthquake and it was felt 60 miles north.....it was a tad over 6. I was up beyond Palmdale and it woke me up, our bed felt like it was swinging from side to side. It did a lot of damage in the area where it happened. I have a scrapbook on all the horrible damage that it caused. People were killed.

We have no guarantee that the quakes in Oklahoma will remain small. I'm sure the people in Oklahoma are rethinking this, as they were in denial for quite a while.

I was 400 yards from the epicenter of the Northridge quake staying with a friend when the quake hit. I quite literally woke up in midair. I was also present for the 1972 Sylmar quake (about a mile from the epicenter) and was living part time in the Bay Area when the Loma Prieta quake hit. Trust me. I probably have more experience with earthquakes than you ever will.

Wow! That's awesome. You are so cool!

 

[LoneLaugher]

I think its safe to say that I've been through more earthquakes than our Geology PhD ( ROFL ) Rustballs and Staph combined. And...they aren't cool.

You can feel them when they are 3.0 magnitude. The geologist is full of shit.

 

[Esmeralda]

Who cares. Back in the 1970's we were actively theorizing about the possibility of using fracking to reduce the pressure building up along major fault lines. The theory being that inducing thousands and thousands of small quakes would relive the pressure on the fault lines thus preventing large quakes like just Occurred in Nepal.

These quakes are so small that most people can't even feel them. Those that are felt cause no damage to speak of.

I suppose the people in Oklahoma are going to begin to care. And I wouldn't consider a 5.6 magnitude one so small that people can't even feel them. I bet if it was in your state, close to where you live, you might care.


The largest-ever recorded quake in Oklahoma was caused by the injection of wastewater, a byproduct of oil extraction, into the ground, new research confirms.

On Nov. 6, 2011, a series of earthquakes, including a 5.6-magnitude temblor, struck the rural town of Prague, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, crumbling homes in the area and damaging a federal highway. The quake could be felt as far away as Milwaukee.
Oil Extraction Causes Biggest Recorded Earthquake in Oklahoma

I've lived through several that were magnitude 7 or above. Homes that are built well have no problem with magnitude 6 or below. The issue is quakes do occur in the central US, but they are so uncommon that the building codes don't reflect their existence.

The New Madrid quakes back in 1812 (magnitude 8.2+) made the Mississippi river flow backwards for three days, and when another one of those hits it will lay waste to whichever region it hits.

You were lucky. I was in California during the 1994 earthquake and it was felt 60 miles north.....it was a tad over 6. I was up beyond Palmdale and it woke me up, our bed felt like it was swinging from side to side. It did a lot of damage in the area where it happened. I have a scrapbook on all the horrible damage that it caused. People were killed.

We have no guarantee that the quakes in Oklahoma will remain small. I'm sure the people in Oklahoma are rethinking this, as they were in denial for quite a while.

I was 400 yards from the epicenter of the Northridge quake staying with a friend when the quake hit. I quite literally woke up in midair. I was also present for the 1972 Sylmar quake (about a mile from the epicenter) and was living part time in the Bay Area when the Loma Prieta quake hit. Trust me. I probably have more experience with earthquakes than you ever will.

Wow! That's awesome. You are so cool!

He's so full of it you mean.