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4.2 earthquake in Oklahoma?
Just came across my tv. Oklahoma? Didn't know there were any fault lines that big in Oklahoma?
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....oil wells....


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....fracturing....


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On a serious note, I didn't know there were fault lines big enough either but you never know...
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They've been getting small rumbles out there for a while now....but it is hard to explain the sudden increase of 'em there over the last year.
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Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.
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(08-19-2014 08:19 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.

How often do you get them big enough that you can feel them? Monthly or so?
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(08-19-2014 08:26 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  
(08-19-2014 08:19 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.

How often do you get them big enough that you can feel them? Monthly or so?

You can feel most of them. The last ones to cause any real damage happened in 2007. Chimney's falling off houses, cracked foundations, cracked ceilings...that sort of stuff.

Most of them are just rumbles. The feel like there is a giant washing machine under the earth and it is on the spin cycle. It literally is like someone flipped a switch and it lasts about a minute or twi. Other times they produce a rocking like motion. They wake me up in the middle of the night all the time.
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(08-19-2014 08:19 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.

Dix, I've seen the seismology reports for like 1.2' and 1.3's.. maybe getting up to a 2 on occasion.

I'd never heard of one at or above a 4.0. (not saying it hasn't happened, just kinda surprised me0.
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That's fraking scary.
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(08-19-2014 08:34 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  
(08-19-2014 08:26 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  
(08-19-2014 08:19 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.

How often do you get them big enough that you can feel them? Monthly or so?

You can feel most of them. The last ones to cause any real damage happened in 2007. Chimney's falling off houses, cracked foundations, cracked ceilings...that sort of stuff.

Most of them are just rumbles. The feel like there is a giant washing machine under the earth and it is on the spin cycle. It literally is like someone flipped a switch and it lasts about a minute or twi. Other times they produce a rocking like motion. They wake me up in the middle of the night all the time.

I think it's the other way around, you can't feel most of them.
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(08-19-2014 08:40 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  That's fraking scary.

...and there it is.
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(08-19-2014 08:40 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  That's fraking scary.

what is fraking?
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(08-19-2014 08:37 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  
(08-19-2014 08:19 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Dude, we have earthquakes every week. Sometimes every day. I was driving at this time and didn't feel it. Oklahoma shares part of the New Madrid fault line system.

The last few years have been very active.

Dix, I've seen the seismology reports for like 1.2' and 1.3's.. maybe getting up to a 2 on occasion.

I'd never heard of one at or above a 4.0. (not saying it hasn't happened, just kinda surprised me0.

I don't know what you are reading, but we have them way stronger than that quite often. We are more earthquake prone than California

This was just last month"
Quote:The U.S. Geological Survey recorded nine earthquakes Sunday in Oklahoma.

The largest quakes were two 3.8 magnitudes:

- 8:25 p.m. about 8 miles northeast of Cherokee

- 1:18 a.m. about 5 miles west-northwest of Medford

The other six recorded, in order of magnitude, were:

- 3.5 magnitude 1:31 a.m. about 5 miles west-northwest of Medford

- 3.4 magnitude 10:59 a.m. about 8 miles west-northwest of Medford

- 3.1 magnitude 11:35 a.m. about 8 miles west-northwest of Medford

- 3.0 magnitude 8:43 a.m. about 3 miles east-southeast of Perry

- 2.7 magnitude 2:28 a.m. about 5 miles west-northwest of Medford

- 2.6 magnitude 11:50 a.m. about 1 mile southeast of Cherokee

Oklahoma recorded 25 earthquakes during the past seven days, according to the USGS. During the past 30 days, Oklahoma recorded 84 earthquakes of at least 2.5 magnitude.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/ni...374f7.html
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ahh.. guess it's just so common it never makes my "what to watch" news list :)
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http://time.com/8126/oklahoma-wonders-wh...s-shaking/

An unusually high number of tremors have shaken the state lately, leading some to point their fingers at the emerging hydraulic fracturing industry, though the real culprit might be a type of wastewater storage system

No strangers to nature’s fury, Oklahomans grow up accustomed scorching heat, blizzards, wrecking-ball thunderstorms and tornadoes. What they don’t see a lot of are earthquakes, which have been rattling the Sooner State with rare frequency of late — at least 115 earthquakes of varying intensities in the last week.

“You hear a loud ‘WAM!’ and you hear this loud rattle-rattle-rattle,” said Tracey Romberger, who lives near the center of this latest swarm of earthquakes between Oklahoma City and the town of Guthrie. She described the sound as “like somebody was dropping a bomb, or a cannon going off.”

The question on everyone’s mind is: why? The area has been seismically active since time immemorial but the latest swarm of earthquakes is unheard of. According to earthquake monitors EQ Charts, between 1990 and 2008 there were between 0 and 11 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or greater in Oklahoma every year. In 2009 there were 49. In 2010 there were 180. In 2013 there were 291, and so far in 2014 there have been 59-plus and counting. More than a dozen notable earthquakes have shaken north-central Oklahoma in the past three days.

“It’s incredibly unusual,” said Austin Holland, a research seismologist with the Oklahoma Geologic Survey. “We’ve had swarms that are similar in nature but I don’t think we’ve had one with quite the numbers we’ve had.”

State authorities are now trying to get the bottom of the unusual seismic activity. Holland is amassing resources and data to figure out what might be to blame, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees the oil and gas industry, has already proposed new testing and monitoring requirements for wells injected with drilling wastewater, which some have blamed for the increase in earthquakes. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking“, involving explosions being set off underground, has also been blamed by some for the swarm.

Spent drilling water injected back into the ground for storage at high pressure, some scientists believe, may be forcing fault lines under pressure to shift. Katie Keranen, a geophysics professor at Cornell, says “the evidence is strong” that the earthquakes are caused by fracking and wastewater disposal, both of which have become more frequent amid today’s boom in oil and gas drilling.

But others scoff at the notion that fracking might be connected to seismic activity. “I work with geologists and petroleum engineers on a daily basis and they are of the opinion that [fracking] is not causing the earthquakes,” said Eric King, an attorney who works with the oil and gas industry, comparing the earthquake swarm to climate fluctuations. “We didn’t have cold weather in Oklahoma for a lot of years but we’re having it this year,” he said.

It’s true that Oklahoma has a history of earthquake swarms that spike and then die down, but it’s also true that humans have caused earthquakes in the past. And previous swarms have been nowhere near as serious as this latest one. “We do know there have been some earthquakes caused by oil and gas activity in the state,” Holland, the research seismologist, said. “The hard part is figuring out which is which.”

In the meantime, Oklahoma is steeling itself for worse quakes in the future, as each earthquake increases the likelihood that a worse earthquake will follow. That’s a prospect that could put Oklahomans on edge. “It scares you a little bit,” says Romberger. “Makes you jump.”
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(08-19-2014 08:49 AM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  http://time.com/8126/oklahoma-wonders-wh...s-shaking/

An unusually high number of tremors have shaken the state lately, leading some to point their fingers at the emerging hydraulic fracturing industry, though the real culprit might be a type of wastewater storage system

jump.”

Or it could just all be natural but that wouldn't make for a good news headline. I mean, we humans think we know everthing about our planet. Truth is we don't.
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(08-19-2014 08:49 AM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  http://time.com/8126/oklahoma-wonders-wh...s-shaking/

An unusually high number of tremors have shaken the state lately, leading some to point their fingers at the emerging hydraulic fracturing industry, though the real culprit might be a type of wastewater storage system

No strangers to nature’s fury, Oklahomans grow up accustomed scorching heat, blizzards, wrecking-ball thunderstorms and tornadoes. What they don’t see a lot of are earthquakes, which have been rattling the Sooner State with rare frequency of late — at least 115 earthquakes of varying intensities in the last week.

“You hear a loud ‘WAM!’ and you hear this loud rattle-rattle-rattle,” said Tracey Romberger, who lives near the center of this latest swarm of earthquakes between Oklahoma City and the town of Guthrie. She described the sound as “like somebody was dropping a bomb, or a cannon going off.”

The question on everyone’s mind is: why? The area has been seismically active since time immemorial but the latest swarm of earthquakes is unheard of. According to earthquake monitors EQ Charts, between 1990 and 2008 there were between 0 and 11 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or greater in Oklahoma every year. In 2009 there were 49. In 2010 there were 180. In 2013 there were 291, and so far in 2014 there have been 59-plus and counting. More than a dozen notable earthquakes have shaken north-central Oklahoma in the past three days.

“It’s incredibly unusual,” said Austin Holland, a research seismologist with the Oklahoma Geologic Survey. “We’ve had swarms that are similar in nature but I don’t think we’ve had one with quite the numbers we’ve had.”

State authorities are now trying to get the bottom of the unusual seismic activity. Holland is amassing resources and data to figure out what might be to blame, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees the oil and gas industry, has already proposed new testing and monitoring requirements for wells injected with drilling wastewater, which some have blamed for the increase in earthquakes. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking“, involving explosions being set off underground, has also been blamed by some for the swarm.

Spent drilling water injected back into the ground for storage at high pressure, some scientists believe, may be forcing fault lines under pressure to shift. Katie Keranen, a geophysics professor at Cornell, says “the evidence is strong” that the earthquakes are caused by fracking and wastewater disposal, both of which have become more frequent amid today’s boom in oil and gas drilling.

But others scoff at the notion that fracking might be connected to seismic activity. “I work with geologists and petroleum engineers on a daily basis and they are of the opinion that [fracking] is not causing the earthquakes,” said Eric King, an attorney who works with the oil and gas industry, comparing the earthquake swarm to climate fluctuations. “We didn’t have cold weather in Oklahoma for a lot of years but we’re having it this year,” he said.

It’s true that Oklahoma has a history of earthquake swarms that spike and then die down, but it’s also true that humans have caused earthquakes in the past. And previous swarms have been nowhere near as serious as this latest one. “We do know there have been some earthquakes caused by oil and gas activity in the state,” Holland, the research seismologist, said. “The hard part is figuring out which is which.”

In the meantime, Oklahoma is steeling itself for worse quakes in the future, as each earthquake increases the likelihood that a worse earthquake will follow. That’s a prospect that could put Oklahomans on edge. “It scares you a little bit,” says Romberger. “Makes you jump.”

yeah, dude, that's just the liberals looking for a reason to stick it to the oil companies.

1. These fault lines are miles below the deepest injection well.

2. Oklahoma has had earthquakes for millions of years. There is geological evidence of super quakes long before humans walked the continent.

3. The second largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma occurred in the 1920s

4. Stronger earthquakes are happening in other parts of the country where there is no fracking.

Of course the media is going to find scientists that will blame this on fracking. It's no different than global warming and now "climate change."

Quite frankly, I am surprised you posted that.
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