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originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: MrLimpet
When did fracking start? That would be my first question as to why there is a steady and prolonged increase in the number and magnitude of earthquakes.
Cheers - Dave
originally posted by: ItCameFromOuterSpace
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: MrLimpet
When did fracking start? That would be my first question as to why there is a steady and prolonged increase in the number and magnitude of earthquakes.
Cheers - Dave
It started long ago. Fracking in some form has been happening since the 1940's.
Preliminary Earthquake Information
Origin Time (UTC) Latitude Longitude Depth (km) Magnitude
2014-05-06 20:06:44.749000 36.288 +/- 0.9 -97.208 +/- 1.2 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.3 ML OGS
2014-05-06 18:37:45.357999 36.706 +/- 1.4 -98.211 +/- 2.3 5.0 +/- 2.7 2.5 ML OGS
2014-05-06 17:21:37.527999 36.345 +/- 1.1 -97.073 +/- 1.9 6.7 +/- 2.6 2.2 ML OGS
2014-05-06 15:17:33.362999 36.393 +/- 1.2 -97.148 +/- 1.6 5.0 +/- 4.3 2.7 ML OGS
2014-05-06 15:06:52.731999 36.398 +/- 0.9 -97.149 +/- 1.3 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.2 ML OGS
2014-05-06 13:14:41.033999 36.346 +/- 0.8 -97.084 +/- 1.7 5.2 +/- 3.8 2.1 ML OGS
2014-05-06 11:22:40.177999 36.637 +/- 4.6 -97.831 +/- 4.0 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.6 ML OGS
2014-05-06 07:38:52.649999 36.124 +/- 0.8 -97.643 +/- 1.3 4.6 +/- 1.5 2.0 ML OGS
2014-05-06 06:08:10.441000 35.904 +/- 0.5 -97.265 +/- 0.9 4.8 +/- 1.6 3.2 ML OGS
2014-05-06 03:43:07.004999 36.328 +/- 1.9 -97.083 +/- 2.0 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.1 ML OGS
2014-05-06 03:07:46.223999 36.084 +/- 1.4 -97.302 +/- 2.0 4.9 +/- 3.9 1.7 ML OGS
2014-05-06 02:49:13.603999 36.901 +/- 2.3 -97.385 +/- 2.2 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.0 ML OGS
2014-05-06 01:25:50.082000 36.893 +/- 4.8 -97.638 +/- 3.7 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.0 ML OGS
2014-05-06 01:08:01.197999 36.634 +/- 1.1 -97.828 +/- 1.3 5.0 +/- 0.0 2.9 ML OGS
2014-05-06 00:20:47.944000 35.790 +/- 1.4 -97.093 +/- 1.8 5.0 +/- 0.0 1.7 ML OGS
2014-05-06 00:11:17.695000 36.612 +/- 2.0 -97.844 +/- 1.7 5.0 +/- 0.0 1.8 ML OGS
originally posted by: ItCameFromOuterSpace
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: MrLimpet
When did fracking start? That would be my first question as to why there is a steady and prolonged increase in the number and magnitude of earthquakes.
Cheers - Dave
It started long ago. Fracking in some form has been happening since the 1940's.
In August, Brown gave his blessing to a dramatic expansion of fracking in California's massive oil shale formations, which underlie a large area of the state from Southern to Central California. The fracking bill Brown signed into law, SB4, ensures that fracking will move forward unimpeded for at least the next two years, and exempts fracking from thorough review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the state's bedrock environmental law.
truth-out.org...
Scientists have drawn links between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells used for oil and gas production, including fracking. Researchers say the toxic wastewater, stored thousands of feet underground, reducing friction along fault lines, which can trigger earthquakes. The ongoing fracking boom has led to a growth in national demand for disposal wells, according to Bloomberg.
originally posted by: Springer
This is perfect, we've got a storm cellar being installed tomorrow, if the tornado doesn't get me (I live right on the border of Moore, OK in S.W. OKC), a freaking earthquake will kill me while I'm ducking the tornado in the big concrete hole in the ground...
sigh...
I've lived all over, you either get hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, mud slides, killer sandstorms, deadly pestilence, or earthquakes...
I say we build the mothership and find a planet like Hawaii. I'd sign up.
On March 17, 1949, a team of petroleum production experts converges on an oil well about 12 miles east of Duncan, Oklahoma – to perform the first commercial application of hydraulic fracturing
originally posted by: ItCameFromOuterSpace
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
First Frack In OK 1949
On March 17, 1949, a team of petroleum production experts converges on an oil well about 12 miles east of Duncan, Oklahoma – to perform the first commercial application of hydraulic fracturing
The only other info I have is from generations of oilfield workers in my family and friends.
I think the only relatively new technique is horizontal drilling. But that's been happening for decades as well. The aggressive drilling comes and goes with oil booms. I don't doubt it has something to do with fracking, but I haven't seen definitive evidence. I think these fault lines are just being active. We've always known they were there and that they were due.