Breaking: Magnitude 3.6 earthquake strikes near Detroit, Michigan.

Well this is little odd. Today at 815 p.m.,never my 40 years in Michigan remember earthquakes till last couple years been 3 now.

www.mlive.com...

a reply to: slayerfan

It must have been pretty weak. I'm near Detroit and have not felt anything unusual.

a reply to: slayerfan

I felt a bit of one in the late 90's.

yellowstone will literally go off in minutes prepare

Neither my dad nor brother north in the suburbs felt anything. Definitely didn't feel it across the state around GR here (obviously, too weak)

Edit: Looks like it was on the Canadian side of the border, too. Amherstburg, Ontario.

a reply to: Nyiah

Here in Hastings pretty far from det

Any fracking going on up there? I suspect it's shallow.

a reply to: CharlesT

5 km
earthquake.usgs.gov...

a reply to: Phage

I thought the "New Madrid" was debunked? Didn't Trueamerican state this fault isn't real?

Most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains has infrequent earthquakes. Here and there earthquakes are more numerous, for example in the New Madrid seismic zone centered on southeastern Missouri, in the Charlevoix-Kamouraska seismic zone of eastern Quebec, in New England, in the New York - Philadelphia - Wilmington urban corridor, and elsewhere. However, most of the enormous region from the Rockies to the Atlantic can go years without an earthquake large enough to be felt, and several U.S. states have never reported a damaging earthquake.

a reply to: slayerfan

Wow, the title made me squint and reread it and now I have my "wow" face on. Thats weird. Its even kind of scary.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Didn't Trueamerican state this fault isn't real?

Not that I know of. Pretty sure he knows better.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: CharlesT

5 km
earthquake.usgs.gov...

This will sound nuts but I can't help but think we are drawing all of the fluid shock absorption out or the earths crust by removing so much oil and water from deep in the earth's crust and intensifying the effects of geological crustal stress relief. All eyes are on what carbon is doing to our atmosphere but I'm wondering what effect it is having on the ground we stand on.

a reply to: CharlesT

Actually, it's the opposite.

It's thought that fracking (actually the injection of fracking waste) provides lubrication causing small quakes to occur when they otherwise would not.

a reply to: Phage

Hmm.. thanks
There was a thread some time ago by TA explaining about it. I'll have to find it and do some Re Compression.

Didn’t feel a thing here in the northern suburbs.
My dogs didn’t do anything strange around that time.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: CharlesT

Actually, it's the opposite.

It's thought that fracking (actually the injection of fracking waste) provides lubrication causing small quakes to occur when they otherwise would not.

That's just fracking. Look at all or the groundwater being drawn out. The Ogalalla aquifer is being severely depleted. It will not sustain the breadbasket much longer. The aquifers in Cali. are being depleted. So much oil pumped out and nothing pumped in to replace it. I can see gravitational compression happening over time.


PS: Fracking is fracturing the shale and bedrock to get it out.

a reply to: CharlesT

Water extraction surely does stuff too.
www.latimes.com...

Well if we kicked out 30 million illegals, that would be 10% less water we are using. Seems those who are for massive immigration are also the ones who are for protecting the enviornment, but their actions, as always, are the opposite.

a reply to: CharlesT

It doesn't sound nuts to me. I've considered this too, over the years. What if oil is the life-blood of the planet. (Now you think I'm crazy, haha) But there may be detrimental effects to sucking large quantities of oil up out of the Earth, that we never imagined.

How far away is this from the old salt mines full of nuclear waste? It wouldn't take much of an earthquake to destabalize a salt mine.