Ohio earthquake man made

[Truthmatters]

Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says - Yahoo! News


CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year's Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration and production, an expert hired by the state of Ohio said on Tuesday.

Ohio's Department of Natural Resources on Sunday suspended operations at five deep well sites in Youngstown, Ohio, where the injection of water was taking place, while they evaluate seismological data from a rare quake in the area.

The wells are about 9,000 feet deep and are used to dispose of water from oil and gas wells. The process is related to fracking, the controversial injection of chemical-laced water and sand into rock to release oil and gas. Critics say that the high pressure injection of the liquid causes seismic activity.

 

[Political Junky]

I heard this discussed on radio. Fracking not only pollutes the water supply, but causes earthquakes.

 

[Conservative]

I love fraking...

I'd frak her...

and her...

and especially her...

 

[grunt11b]

Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says - Yahoo! News


CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year's Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration and production, an expert hired by the state of Ohio said on Tuesday.

Ohio's Department of Natural Resources on Sunday suspended operations at five deep well sites in Youngstown, Ohio, where the injection of water was taking place, while they evaluate seismological data from a rare quake in the area.

The wells are about 9,000 feet deep and are used to dispose of water from oil and gas wells. The process is related to fracking, the controversial injection of chemical-laced water and sand into rock to release oil and gas. Critics say that the high pressure injection of the liquid causes seismic activity.

Why the hell is this in the politics forum?

 

[Truthmatters]

None of them would return the sentiment con.

 

[Truthmatters]

Your additude of allowing corps to do whatever they want harms real life people

 

[Truthmatters]

I guess you are hoping no one remembers this huh?

 

[Mr. H.]

"...may have been caused by..."

Evaluation pending.

If corporations were allowed to do "whatever they want", operations would not have been halted as stated in that article.

Perhaps real life people such as yourself shouldn't be throwing up red flags without reason.

 

[Crackerjack]

Your additude of allowing corps to do whatever they want harms real life people

It's pretty funny to hear a person who can't even hold down a job thinking she can tell a corporation what it can and cannot do.

By the way, there's about 13,000 4.0 magnitude earthquakes a year. A 4.0 quake may rattle the dishes in your kitchen cabinet, but that's about the extent of the damage.

But by all means, let's get our panties all in a wad over it and shut everything down, then sit and wonder why the hell petroleum prices are so high.

 

[Jeremy]

And in related news...

Dead Werewolf Apparently Allergic To Peanuts

 

[whitehall]

It was Bush's fault.

 

[Jeremy]

It was Bush's fault.

All earthquakes come from the Bush fault.

 

[skookerasbil]

Now........Ive seen some k00k threads on this forum in my day but.............


The environmental forum k00ks........a gift that gives every single day!! The USMessage Board Environmental Forums..........a place where eccentric is re-defined!!! These people revel in being fringe..........its fcukking fascinating if you ask me!!

 

[Old Rocks]

It has long been known that injecting fluids into a fault zone can lubricate the zone and cause it to release built up pressure. Whether you know the zone is there or not is irrelevant.

How Humans Cause Earthquakes | Surprising Science

Some scientists have suggested the weight of water in the lake created by the Zipingpu Dam in China triggered the 2008 Sichuan earthquake (courtesy of flickr user TaylorMiles)

On Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook eastern Ohio, a week after a smaller temblor in the region worried officials so badly that they halted work on a fluid-injection well in Youngstown.

This wasn’t the first case in which the injection of fluids into the earth has been linked with earthquakes. In April, for example, the English seaside resort town of Blackpool shook from a magnitude 2.3 earthquake, one of several quakes now known to have been caused by hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking,” which involves pumping large amounts of fluid into the ground to release natural gas) in the area. The link has been known for decades—a series of quakes in the Denver, Colorado, region in 1967 was caused by fluid injection.

The phenomenon is so well known that Arthur McGarr, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, has developed a method to predict the highest magnitude of an earthquake that could be produced by hydraulic fracturing, carbon sequestration, geothermal power generation or any method that involves injecting fluid deep into the earth. Though the method doesn’t allow scientists to predict the likelihood that such a quake would occur, it will let engineers better plan for worst-case scenarios, McGarr told Nature.

Hydraulic fracturing naturally causes small tremors, but bigger quakes may occur if the liquid migrates beyond the area where it’s injected. The New York Times reports:

The larger earthquakes near Blackpool were thought to be caused the same way that quakes could be set off from disposal wells—by migration of the fluid into rock formations below the shale. Seismologists say that these deeper, older rocks, collectively referred to as the “basement,” are littered with faults that, although under stress, have reached equilibrium over hundreds of millions of years.

“There are plenty of faults,” said Leonardo Seeber, a seismologist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “Conservatively, one should assume that no matter where you drill, the basement is going to have faults that could rupture.”

 

[Old Rocks]

http://www.stockton.edu/~hozikm/geol/Courses/Structure/Lectures/Earthquakes and Fluid Pressure.doc

Earthquake and Fluid Pressure
Earthquakes
at
Denver and Rangely, Colorado
and
Reservoir-Induced Earthquakes
In the Beginning
• Denver was a city relatively free of earthquakes
– No felt earthquakes in 80 years
– No earthquakes above magnitude 3 recorded on seismographs in 30 years
• Spring 1962
– Mysterious sequence of earthquakes
– In the next 4 years there were several earthquakes large enough to cause slight damage
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
• Located 19 km northeast of Denver
• Began manufacturing chemical warfare materials in 1942
– Eventually produced nerve gas
– Left behind contaminated water
• First disposed of water by evaporation from unlined ponds
– Contaminated groundwater
– Ceased this activity in 1961
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
• Were unsuccessful when they tried to use lined lagoons
• Local ranchers’ sheep began to die
– Army denied responsibility
– Eventually acknowledged contamination of surface waters and shallow groundwater
• Got approval to drill a 12,000-foot-deep well and pump waste into the ground
– Classic out-of-sight-out-of-mind reasoning
The Well
• Completed to 3671 meters on September 11, 1961
• Injection began on March 8, 1962
– Average rate was 5.5 million gallons per day
– Earthquakes began shortly thereafter
• Pumping stopped for technical reasons from September 1963 to September 1964
– Earthquake frequency declined
• Pumping resumed and so did earthquakes

 

[skookerasbil]

By the way..........a 4.0 magnitude quake happens if you drop a fcukking bowling ball out of the back of your trunk. In terms of seismology............insignificant.

Now........this sight in person might cause some significant seismic activity.............

 

[Old Rocks]

U.S. Government Confirms Link Between Earthquakes and Hydraulic Fracturing at Oil Price

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 12-PAGE REPORT.
On 5 November an earthquake measuring 5.6 rattled Oklahoma and was felt as far away as Illinois.
Until two years ago Oklahoma typically had about 50 earthquakes a year, but in 2010, 1,047 quakes shook the state.

Why?

In Lincoln County, where most of this past weekend's seismic incidents were centered, there are 181 injection wells, according to Matt Skinner, an official from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the agency which oversees oil and gas production in the state.

Cause and effect?

The practice of injecting water into deep rock formations causes earthquakes, both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Geological Survey have concluded.

The U.S. natural gas industry pumps a mixture of water and assorted chemicals deep underground to shatter sediment layers containing natural gas, a process called hydraulic fracturing, known more informally as “fracking.” While environmental groups have primarily focused on fracking’s capacity to pollute underground water, a more ominous byproduct emerges from U.S. government studies – that forcing fluids under high pressure deep underground produces increased regional seismic activity.

As the U.S. natural gas industry mounts an unprecedented and expensive advertising campaign to convince the public that such practices are environmentally benign, U.S. government agencies have determined otherwise.

 

[skookerasbil]

Ray........not for nothing, but at this stage of the game, trying to link stuff like this appears publically like a coordinated effort by folks with a specific agenda. Ten years ago.........it was much more effective, but these days, it is counterproductive. There are even a number of articles out there in very recent years by significant warming advocates that speak to the senselessness of the bomb throwing.

 

[Old Rocks]

A four on the richter scale is equivelent to 15 to 500 tons of TNT. Not really significant. However, since we cannot know in advance what the possible stress is on a hidden fault before we inject fluids into it, it is possible to trigger a much larger and more damaging quake, such as the one in Oklahoma.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, I could just go on memory and suppose people would trust that. But I would not.

Point is, it has long been known that lubricating a fault is a very good way to find out, in one lurch, how much stress had accumulated on it. And in fracting, we are lubricating faults that we have no idea exist. Eventually, we will find one with a lot of stress on it.