Earthquake Felt in Oklahoma and Parts of Kansas, Arkansas, 5.3

originally posted by: reldra
USGS

5.3 Km w of Cushimg OK. 6.1 is the depth.

This is a developing story.

There was a pre shock 3.1 KM ENE of Perry OK, at a depth of 5.0.

Oklahoma is the location of multiple earthquakes due to fracking almost daily, but this strength is not common.

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This is not due to fracking but is due to the unregulated disposal of waste water left over from fracking.
The way to fix the problem is to stop this injection of waste water by having the oil and gas companies distill all the water out of the fracking waste water and bury the Dry toxic waste in hazmat waste sites.

a reply to: alphabetaone

The walls are sound. The shelves were a heavy particle board, mounted with braces and screws. The shelves were not over full or over weighted. The screws sheared off. It was amazing. One sheared, then the rest went in a second or two. Luckily the gin did not break. It was a huge mess.
We just put up wire freestanding shelves in place of the built ins. We live on the edge of a sinkhole (a stable one....for over 40 years. So far.) The only cracks we have had in our walls was from the fracking quakes years ago.
A losing stream is amazing to see. No one knows where the water goes. It vanishes into a hole.
Since we live in a Protection District, we are asked to preserve our sinkholes and streams. It is believed that our area feeds the aquifers for a large area. St Louis gets its water from the rivers. But scientists have done the color tests on the water going into our sinks...(they dye the water, see where it ends up). It never shows up again.

With republicans in the Oklahoma being bought and paid for by oil industry. They will never put an end to fracking waste water injection wells. Before the fracking boom, we never had that many earthquakes in Oklahoma. Growing up here all my life, i can't remember any Earthquake before 2008. Oklahoma is known for tornado outbreaks, not Earthquakes every other week.

originally posted by: katfish
a reply to: alphabetaone

The walls are sound. The shelves were a heavy particle board, mounted with braces and screws. The shelves were not over full or over weighted. The screws sheared off. It was amazing. One sheared, then the rest went in a second or two. Luckily the gin did not break. It was a huge mess.
We just put up wire freestanding shelves in place of the built ins. We live on the edge of a sinkhole (a stable one....for over 40 years. So far.) The only cracks we have had in our walls was from the fracking quakes years ago.
A losing stream is amazing to see. No one knows where the water goes. It vanishes into a hole.
Since we live in a Protection District, we are asked to preserve our sinkholes and streams. It is believed that our area feeds the aquifers for a large area. St Louis gets its water from the rivers. But scientists have done the color tests on the water going into our sinks...(they dye the water, see where it ends up). It never shows up again.

You would think they would have a longer range device to track the destination almost, wouldn't you? Just so they could maybe at least start to draw some conclusions on where it could be going!