More "fracking-induced" quakes in Oklahoma

[CrusaderFrank]

We shouldn't allow any type of construction over a fault either... hammering a nail too aggressively could shake the fault loose

 

[mamooth]

Actually, it is science that says fracking doesn't cause quakes.

Congratulations on using some fine hair-splitting to divert. "It's not the fracking, it's the wastewater disposal that goes along with the fracking! You said it was fracking, so you're stupid!".

But, please, feel free to pretend you understand this better than the USGS.

What We Know

While it appears likely that the observed seismicity rate changes in the middle part of the United States in recent years are manmade, it remains to be determined if they are related to either changes in production methodologies or to the rate of oil and gas production.

 

[Dot Com]

some or many of them also do this:

Ohio Businessman Pleads Guilty After Dumping Fracking Wastewater Into Mahoning River

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Actually, it is science that says fracking doesn't cause quakes.

Congratulations on using some fine hair-splitting to divert. "It's not the fracking, it's the wastewater disposal that goes along with the fracking! You said it was fracking, so you're stupid!".

But, please, feel free to pretend you understand this better than the USGS.

What We Know

While it appears likely that the observed seismicity rate changes in the middle part of the United States in recent years are manmade, it remains to be determined if they are related to either changes in production methodologies or to the rate of oil and gas production.

Funny how you didn't have a problem with the OP saying fracking caused earthquakes, and only took exception to my post proving it doesn't.

Then again, we all know you are a hack.

By the way, all those little quakes are only a problem in the minds of hacks who hate science.

 

[RGR]

Seriously, Fracking should be banned over a fault that can produce a 6+ or above quake. You'd have to be a total fucking idiot to frack that.

You have to be a total fucking idiot to believe that fault zones are what is hydraulically stimulated during completion operations of a well.

Oh…wait…I'm responding to Matthew….it all fits….

 

[ScienceRocks]

Actually, it is science that says fracking doesn't cause quakes.

Congratulations on using some fine hair-splitting to divert. "It's not the fracking, it's the wastewater disposal that goes along with the fracking! You said it was fracking, so you're stupid!".

What We Know

While it appears likely that the observed seismicity rate changes in the middle part of the United States in recent years are manmade, it remains to be determined if they are related to either changes in production methodologies or to the rate of oil and gas production.

Funny how you didn't have a problem with the OP saying fracking caused earthquakes, and only took exception to my post proving it doesn't.

Then again, we all know you are a hack.

By the way, all those little quakes are only a problem in the minds of hacks who hate science.

More and more science is coming around to disagree with you. You just don't get more quakes, then California in Oklahoma. So sorry to rain on your parade...You people were also wrong about smoking...How did that work out for you?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Congratulations on using some fine hair-splitting to divert. "It's not the fracking, it's the wastewater disposal that goes along with the fracking! You said it was fracking, so you're stupid!".

Funny how you didn't have a problem with the OP saying fracking caused earthquakes, and only took exception to my post proving it doesn't.

Then again, we all know you are a hack.

By the way, all those little quakes are only a problem in the minds of hacks who hate science.

More and more science is coming around to disagree with you. You just don't get more quakes, then California in Oklahoma. So sorry to rain on your parade...You people were also wrong about smoking...How did that work out for you?

Actually, as mamooth pointed out, and my link to a government study confirms, the theory is that waste water injection causes minor earthquakes. And, again as mamooth pointed out, that is not fracking.

But feel free to pretend you actually know what you are talking about.

 

[Old Rocks]

Oklahoma had it's oil boom in the 1920's. There were a lot more wells drilled then than now.

"Fracking" is short for fracturing the tube through which the well was drilled with explosives
to allow the oil to enter the well.

All of those early wells were "fracked" but the earthquakes started when?

That is not what 'fracking' is. A really ignorant post, that serves neither the proponents nor opponents of the practice.

 

[Dot Com]

I'm getting tired of deniers putting their heads in the sand while this is going on!!!

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I'm getting tired of deniers putting their heads in the sand while this is going on!!!

Funny thing is that there is a serious danger of earthquakes caused by man who haven't been fracking. Want to know what the cause is?

Wells.

Winter rains and summer groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley make the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges sink and rise by a few millimeters each year, creating stress on the state’s earthquake faults that could increase the risk of a quake.
Gradual depletion of the Central Valley aquifer because of groundwater pumping also raises these mountain ranges by a similar amount each year – about the thickness of a dime – with a cumulative rise over the past 150 years of up to 15 centimeters (6 inches), according to calculations by a team of geophysicists.
While the seasonal changes in the Central Valley aquifer have not yet been firmly associated with any earthquakes, studies have shown that similar levels of periodic stress, such as that caused by the motions of the moon and sun, increase the number of microquakes on the San Andreas Fault, which runs parallel to the mountain ranges. If these subtle seasonal load changes are capable of influencing the occurrence of microquakes, it is possible that they can sometimes also trigger a larger event, said Roland Bürgmann, UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science at UC Berkeley.
“The stress is very small, much less than you need to build up stress on a fault toward an earthquake, but in some circumstances such small stress changes can be the straw that broke the camel’s back; it could just give that extra push to get a fault to fail,” Bürgmann said.

Central Valley groundwater depletion raises Sierra and may trigger small earthquakes

 

[Dot Com]

yes, I read about that. We can thank Big Agri & their powerful interests for that.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oklahoma had it's oil boom in the 1920's. There were a lot more wells drilled then than now.

"Fracking" is short for fracturing the tube through which the well was drilled with explosives
to allow the oil to enter the well.

All of those early wells were "fracked" but the earthquakes started when?

That is not what 'fracking' is. A really ignorant post, that serves neither the proponents nor opponents of the practice.

^ Fracking moron

 

[percysunshine]

I'm getting tired of deniers putting their heads in the sand while this is going on!!!

People must be, like, dropping dead in the street from all this stuff.

.

 

[Old Rocks]

Lubricating faults is a sure way get them to slip. That is exactly what fracking does if there is a fault where the fracking is done. There are many faults that show no evidence of their existance at surface.

Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm 2014: Rise In Oklahoma Earthquakes Tied to Fracking Wastewater Has Citizens And Scientists Searching For Answers

Roy Grissom was lying in bed one morning in 2011 when his house in Oklahoma suddenly shook. Heavy concrete window sills ripped from the walls, pulling out chunks of brick as they fell. The older home’s foundation split and the plaster ceiling began to crack. The house shuddered again, and then again.

Grissom never expected to feel an earthquake in Prague (pronounced “PRAY-geh&#8221, a town of 2,500 people settled by Czech immigrants. “Fires or tornadoes, sure, but not an earthquake. Not in Oklahoma,” the former school superintendent told International Business Times.

The 5.7-magnitude earthquake – the strongest in the state’s history – and a series of related shocks destroyed 13 other homes and injured two people that November, racking up nearly $1 million in damage across the small town.

This spring, federal scientists confirmed the quake’s likely cause: Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- created by both conventional oil drilling and modern techniques like fracking -- had been injected in the ground near a fault zone, triggering the seismic reaction. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) dubbed the event the “largest human-caused earthquake associated with wastewater injection.”

 

[Samson]

I grew up in Oklahoma in the 1960-80's and remember earthquakes happening there several times.

They were always small and would just rattle the dishes setting inside the china cabinet and make the ash tray scoot across the coffee table. ..

Me too.

But it was from Artillary Fire.

Fort Sill....

 

[Samson]

Lubricating faults is a sure way get them to slip. That is exactly what fracking does if there is a fault where the fracking is done. There are many faults that show no evidence of their existance at surface.

Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm 2014: Rise In Oklahoma Earthquakes Tied to Fracking Wastewater Has Citizens And Scientists Searching For Answers

Roy Grissom was lying in bed one morning in 2011 when his house in Oklahoma suddenly shook. Heavy concrete window sills ripped from the walls, pulling out chunks of brick as they fell. The older home’s foundation split and the plaster ceiling began to crack. The house shuddered again, and then again.

Grissom never expected to feel an earthquake in Prague (pronounced “PRAY-geh”), a town of 2,500 people settled by Czech immigrants. “Fires or tornadoes, sure, but not an earthquake. Not in Oklahoma,” the former school superintendent told International Business Times.

The 5.7-magnitude earthquake – the strongest in the state’s history – and a series of related shocks destroyed 13 other homes and injured two people that November, racking up nearly $1 million in damage across the small town.

This spring, federal scientists confirmed the quake’s likely cause: Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- created by both conventional oil drilling and modern techniques like fracking -- had been injected in the ground near a fault zone, triggering the seismic reaction. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) dubbed the event the “largest human-caused earthquake associated with wastewater injection.”

Yes developing energy sources involves risk.

I understand some people have been "electrocuted" by energy that is in practically every home in America.

 

[JiggsCasey]

Yes developing energy sources involves risk.

I understand some people have been "electrocuted" by energy that is in practically every home in America.

Yeah, electricity isn't an "energy source," dip****. Do better with your analogies.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Lubricating faults is a sure way get them to slip. That is exactly what fracking does if there is a fault where the fracking is done. There are many faults that show no evidence of their existance at surface.

Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm 2014: Rise In Oklahoma Earthquakes Tied to Fracking Wastewater Has Citizens And Scientists Searching For Answers

Roy Grissom was lying in bed one morning in 2011 when his house in Oklahoma suddenly shook. Heavy concrete window sills ripped from the walls, pulling out chunks of brick as they fell. The older home’s foundation split and the plaster ceiling began to crack. The house shuddered again, and then again.

Grissom never expected to feel an earthquake in Prague (pronounced “PRAY-geh”), a town of 2,500 people settled by Czech immigrants. “Fires or tornadoes, sure, but not an earthquake. Not in Oklahoma,” the former school superintendent told International Business Times.

The 5.7-magnitude earthquake – the strongest in the state’s history – and a series of related shocks destroyed 13 other homes and injured two people that November, racking up nearly $1 million in damage across the small town.

This spring, federal scientists confirmed the quake’s likely cause: Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- created by both conventional oil drilling and modern techniques like fracking -- had been injected in the ground near a fault zone, triggering the seismic reaction. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) dubbed the event the “largest human-caused earthquake associated with wastewater injection.”

LOL

Obama's "Scientists" say fracking caused it

What a fracking idiot

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Lubricating faults?????

Seriously???

 

[RGR]

But feel free to pretend you actually know what you are talking about.

You were responding to Matthew....he has nearly changed the first level definition of what that name means in the dictionary, to something resembling "person who pretends they know what they are talking about, usually assigned by parents who want to warn the world".