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Why is it that there are no earthquakes in the 4 Corners region of NM, UT,CO, and AZ? Fracking has been going on there for decades.
A good friend of mine, a very successful petroleum geologist who happens to live in Edmond, suggests that if wastewater injection is causing the increase in quakes in Oklahoma, that we owe the industry our thanks. Each small quake relieves some seismic stress, possibly preventing a big one.
Personally I think we may be experiencing some precursors to a pretty large event anyway.
tremors couldn’t possible have anything to do with the Meers or many other fault lines could it...
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/level2/geology/ok.geo.provinces.
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Nah.... course not
Very good story that lays out facts instead of the agenda driven hysteria seen in most stories on the subject.
IMHO, it’s disingenuous to separate fracking from the earthquake debate. The author has excellent points about the enviroweenies’ attempts to smear the industry, but scientists have known for DECADES about the effects of deep-earth fluid injection and earth movement. All the author’s doing is setting up the ‘gotcha’ for the greenies. As noted by other FReepers, the small quakes relieve stress. Though I’m sure residents in those areas wish they’d manage it better (if that’s even possible).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3176191/posts?page=6#6
The link below contains a bunch of very good information on fracking in California near faultlines, but it steers into ‘greenie’ territory when it suggests that the reduced stresses in areas being ‘lubricated’ are increasing the risk of a large earthquake in that area (I believe it reduces it...’significantly’).
http://www.cafrackfacts.org/impacts/seismology/
If there was anywhere on the planet where ‘triggering a large earthquake’ due to fluid injection/fracking was most likely to occur, it’s in CA...you’d think that would have happened by now given they’ve been doing this activity since the ‘70s, ya know? That link above also sites a study that asserts OK fracking has caused ‘large’ earthquakes; I’d dispute that finding if they can’t cite one in CA.
See below for more of the historical data related to earth movement related to deep earth injection of fluids.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3176191/posts#9
This isn’t rocket science; it’s cause & effect. Simple physics. All the lefty greenies are doing is trying to steer known science to support their twisted agenda.
IMHO, that latter statement is, also, ‘not rocket science’: All the left does is obfuscate, wax hyperbole and hysterically attack to make their points known. “Yawn” for me.
Insofar as comments about there being ‘no fracking’ in NM, that may be true. But there IS oil drilling. Where there’s oil drilling, there’s deep-well fluid injection for both oil extraction and for wastewater disposal. See below
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/docs/wipp/card33.pdf
World's largest active volcano shows signs of life in Hawaii
Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has rumbled back to life in Hawaii over the past 13 months with more seismic activity than at any time since its last eruption, scientists say, while calling it too soon to predict another blast.The volcano, which last erupted in 1975 and 1984, has been rattled since March 2013 by earthquakes of the same type and in the same location as the temblors that preceded those explosions, said Wes Thelen, a seismologist for the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
"The earthquakes we are seeing at Mauna Loa lead us to believe that some of the same things that happened before the 1975 and 1984 eruptions are happening right now," Thelen told Reuters. "We don't see this kind of activity outside of pre-eruptive earthquake sequences," he said.
Or maybe Mauna Loa waking up is a sign of plate tectonics that are having a ripple effect into Oklahoma?
-PJ
This article assumes the environuts care about facts.