Oklahoma residents seek answers on quakes

Associated Press ^ | Jun. 26, 2014 8:09 AM EDT | Emily Schmall and Kristi Eaton

[Olog-hai]

Oklahoma residents whose homes and nerves have been shaken by an upsurge in earthquakes want to know what’s causing the temblors—and what can be done to stop them.

Hundreds of people are expected to turn out in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Thursday night for a town hall meeting on the issue. […]

Oklahoma recorded nearly 150 between January and the start of May. Though most have been too weak to cause serious damage or endanger lives, they’ve raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, especially the wells in which the industry disposes of its wastewater. …

[Olog-hai]

Utter nonsense. There is a fault line going right through the Oklahoma City area, going north/south and through the suburbs too; there is only One who can stop them. The fracking is going on maybe 60 miles away, besides.

[InterceptPoint]

I read somewhere about a consensus ...

[latina4dubya]

this is satire, right?

[dirtboy]

they’ve raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, especially the wells in which the industry disposes of its wastewater. …

Facepalm.

Wastewater disposal has little to do with fracking. Most is disposal of wastewater that happens during the course of normal production. This is just another effort to try and tear down fracking.

[skeeter]

Its hard to find reporting anymore thats not advocacy journalism.

[353FMG]

Couldn’t they force the oil companies to drill deep shafts and install wooden supports like they do in mines?

[b4its2late]

It’s just democrats, aka low information voters, that are asking.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm concerned that the earthquake is because of all the illegal aliens crossing into California are causing the United States to tip over, and it's going to split in half in Oklahoma.

-PJ

[Crazieman]

So why isn’t North Dakota rattling and rolling?

[laplata]

Its hard to find reporting anymore thats not advocacy journalism.

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That’s for sure. Most of the so called “journalists” of today are low life scum.

[Izzy Dunne]

her internals must yield trouble ahead.

Not so many Democrats up there.

[Izzy Dunne]

So why isn’t North Dakota rattling and rolling?

Not so many Democrats up there. (Clipboard Error)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[cuban leaf]

want to know what’s causing the temblors—and what can be done to stop them.

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I think this is not satire, but might as well be.

Imagine substituting “temblors” with “solar flares”.

People have actually gotten to the point where they think there is no such thing as an “act of God” and everything is human modifiable.

[dirtboy]

North Dakota doesn’t have the kind of faulting that you find in Oklahoma. There are structural mountain ranges and faulting in Oklahoma whereas the geology in North Dakota is much more stable.

[Veggie Todd]

The Great Spirit is angry because we haven’t changed the name of the state from the racist Oklahoma (red people).

[Patriot Babe]

Living here in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, everytime we get a shaker people call the police station. What are the cops supposed to do?

[skeeter]

I’d rather dine with low life scum than the typical MSM “news reporter”.

[Olog-hai]

Never mind the fact that the name itself was suggested by a Choctaw chief.

[Olog-hai]

What would they do if a fissure volcano started erupting in their public park? There are some active volcanoes in that state.