[Crazieman]

Like the earthquakes in LA last week were blamed on fracking as well...

[Paladin2]

I saw that Okla. had a BIG one the other day.

Smaller aftershocks are well expected.

[21twelve]

In all seriousness - are they starting to plant and water all of that ethanol corn yet? Depletion of the Ogalala aquifer has caused land subsidence and minor earthquakes.

[tumblindice]

“I’m guessing it’s a pocket of Balrogs angered by intrusions into their subterranean domain. The oil and gas dwarves delved too deeply, and now there’s hell to pay.”
VP Joe Biden

[re_nortex]

The haughty hubris of leftists is such that they think man has any control at all over the weather or earthquakes. Thus from their twisted, atheistic worldview, they remove Almighty God from the picture for it is He and He alone that chooses what occurs in his Wondrous Creation. The same crowd, led like lemmings by the obama regime, that believes in the junk "science" of AGW is the same crowd that's against fracking...or for that matter any form of domestic energy production.

[Captain Compassion]

Missing information here.

1. How close were the epicenters of these quakes to where fracking is going on?

2. How deep were the quakes? How deep was the fracking?

CC

[USCG SimTech]

If only the science community used actual math in computing cubic meters of extracted fuels offset by injected fluids, in proportion to cubic kilometers of the fracking field.

Fracking would be like sticking a needle into the Daytona beach sands and when a freak wave came up and knocked over your drink you sue all the quilters.

[NoLibZone]

The need to feed NYC dwellers has caused depletion of the Ogalala aquifer.

It’s NYC fault that there are now an increase in quakes.

[norwaypinesavage]

"some seismologists say [these earthquakes] may be tied to oil and gas exploration."

Too bad Reuters doesn't have the cojones to name one. I'll bet there aren't any. It's just some leftist "journalist" at Reuters who "hopes" there is one.

[jerod]

"which some seismologists say may be tied to oil and gas exploration"

This is common refrain from left wing journalist when there are quake swarms... Here's an idea, how much snow is there currently on the ground in the North American continent? Seriously, that's an excessively large amount of weight on the continental plates that isn't normally there. Has any scientist out there espoused the possibility that that's the reason why quake activity appears to have increased this year. It's as good an explanation as any I have heard.

[depressed in 06]

If is is not fracking, it must be Bush’s fault. Bolshies have no other choices.

[VeniVidiVici]

Earthquakes are cyclic just like the climate.

Overview of OK earthquakes - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/oklahoma/history.php

[CPT Clay]

Why is this news? Can anybody really feel a 2. anything tremor? How do you distinguish it from a large truck driving by your house?

[SumProVita]

There has been a lot of activity in Oklahoma lately. Check out the dates and sizes of quakes here:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html