Experts Eye Oil and Gas Industry as Quakes Shake Oklahoma

[ScienceRocks]

Experts Eye Oil and Gas Industry as Quakes Shake Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY — Mary Catherine Sexton has been rattled enough.

This fall her neighborhood in the northeastern part of this city has been shaken by dozens of minor earthquakes. “We would just have little trembles all the time,” she said.

Even before a magnitude 4.5 quake on Saturday knocked objects off her walls and a stone from above her neighbor’s bay window, Ms. Sexton was on edge.

“People are fed up with the earthquakes,” she said. “Our kids are scared. We’re scared.”

Oklahoma has never been known as earthquake country, with a yearly average of about 50 tremors, almost all of them minor. But in the past three years, the state has had thousands of quakes. This year has been the most active, with more than 2,600 so far, including 87 last week.

While most have been too slight to be felt, some, like the quake on Saturday and a smaller one in November that cracked a bathroom wall in Ms. Sexton’s house, have been sensed over a wide area and caused damage. In 2011, a magnitude 5.6 quake — the biggest ever recorded in the state — injured two people and severely damaged more than a dozen homes, some beyond repair.

State officials say they are concerned, and residents accustomed to tornadoes and hail are now talking about buying earthquake insurance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/s...scientists-eye-oil-and-gas-industry.html?_r=0

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Let me guess...it's because of either: a) Global Warming, b) Fracking or c) Bush

 

[ScienceRocks]

b...

Fracking seems to fuck up the earth.

 

[skookerasbil]

OMG......I cant.......



almost as good as the Japanese tsunami was caused by climate change........almost.

 

[ScienceRocks]

wtf does this have to do with climate charge? This is fracking and you do know that fracking sticks a shit line side ways under ground????

 

[skookerasbil]

wtf does this have to do with climate charge? This is fracking and you do know that fracking sticks a shit line side ways under ground????

its all about the absurdity level s0n!!! Guys like you hear ANYTHING from a scientist and you buy it hook, line and stinker.


Everybody's got an agenda dude........wake the fuck up and smell the maple nut crunch.

 

[Corrigendum]

It is amazing what people with zero understanding of science will regurgitate. Hydraulic fracturing, which has been going on for over half a century, is not suddenly causing the Wilzetta Fault to slip. These things happen around active fault zones every so often, and when you install more seismic sensors, you detect a larger number of smaller seismic events.

 

[Corrigendum]

b...

Fracking seems to fuck up the earth.

If oil wells actually harmed Mother Earth, she wouldn't squirt so damned much when I drilled her in the right spot.

 

[Samson]

b...

Fracking seems to fuck up the earth.

If oil wells actually harmed Mother Earth, she wouldn't squirt so damned much when I drilled her in the right spot.

Mother Fucker.

 

[Sunni Man]

I grew up in Oklahoma and there was aways minor tremors.

It was just a fact of life and most people barely noticed. ...