Global warming causes earthquakes! Climate change, whatever.
Posted on 06/26/2014 10:29:45 AM PDT by 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. …
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I can’t say here what I’d rather do with them.
“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.”
I think that earned a double facepalm.
More operation chaos, “Coward-Pivins”, and Alinsky overtones— ie., the Marxist playbook to overwhelm with psyche warfare the nerds, dupes and tools.
I’d laugh — hysterically — if I didn’t know that some idiot politicians may actually pass a law to stop fracking because some woman’s driveway was cracked by an earthquake.
This is Oklahoma, where the people at least seem a lot more sane than in other parts of the country. So hopefully reason will prevail.
You had my interest there.
Heh. If you must know, it came from here.
my brother blames fracking ....but I don’t think so. okc has had a lot of quakes ..they have also drained a couple of lakes dry keeping a man made canal going through downtown and diverting all tax dollars to the city to make it grow. rural areas are getting the shaft.
Earthquakes? Did someone say increasing earthquakes? I did a quick search. . .I thought I had read the following earlier this year. . .beware Oklahoma. . . look up, America!
January 2014: Federal judge: Oklahoma ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/justice/oklahoma-gay-marriage/
Ask FEMA.
It's a fair question as to if it is solely plate tectonics or has a fracing effect contributing to the radical uptick in earthquake frequency.
Fracking is the main reason that Texas and Oklahoma’s economy has boomed.
THIS is the problem...
Oops forgot this. . . .keep looking up America.
Devil-worship group unveils satanic statue design for “Oklahoma State Capitol”
The New York-based Satanic Temple wants to place Lucifer in the same spot of the building where a replica of the Ten Commandments was placed in 2012.
USGS last month started using this as an explanation. I emailed them the day they started it....calling them simply idiots. Unfortunately they never replied back....lol
From the USGS on every quake now in Oklahoma.....
nduced Seismicity
As is the case elsewhere in the world, there is evidence that some central and eastern North America earthquakes have been triggered or caused by human activities that have altered the stress conditions in earth’s crust sufficiently to induce faulting. Activities that have induced felt earthquakes in some geologic environments have included impoundment of water behind dams, injection of fluid into the earth’s crust, extraction of fluid or gas, and removal of rock in mining or quarrying operations. In much of eastern and central North America, the number of earthquakes suspected of having been induced is much smaller than the number of natural earthquakes, but in some regions, such as the south-central states of the U.S., a significant majority of recent earthquakes are thought by many seismologists to have been human-induced. Even within areas with many human-induced earthquakes, however, the activity that seems to induce seismicity at one location may be taking place at many other locations without inducing felt earthquakes. In addition, regions with frequent induced earthquakes may also be subject to damaging earthquakes that would have occurred independently of human activity. Making a strong scientific case for a causative link between a particular human activity and a particular sequence of earthquakes typically involves special studies devoted specifically to the question. Such investigations usually address the process by which the suspected triggering activity might have significantly altered stresses in the bedrock at the earthquake source, and they commonly address the ways in which the characteristics of the suspected human-triggered earthquakes differ from the characteristics of natural earthquakes in the region.
CLIMATE CHANGE.
Oy veh, Ping.
And Pennsylvania. And Texas. And Kentucky...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say "the Earth."
Global warming causes earthquakes! Climate change, whatever.
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