Posted on 11/11/2015 2:32:58 AM PST by Crazieman
Oklahoma is now the No. 1 earthquake area in the world, an Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman said Monday.
Spokesman Matt Skinner said the state is unique in terms of frequency.
"We have had 15 (earthquakes) in Medford since 5 o'clock Saturday morning," he noted. "We've got an earthquake issue."
Skinner said the world is going through a seismic phase.
"Oklahoma is absolutely unique in terms of the number of earthquakes we've had," he said.
Jim Palmer, OCC director of public information and manager of consumer education, said Oklahoma is unique in North America. He said there are other parts of the world experiencing enormous numbers of earthquakes.
"In North America, Oklahoma is very unique and unique in the world, in the sense that it's concentrated so much in just one area," Palmer said.
There is a tendency to make it an oil and gas versus earthquakes versus "whatever issue," Skinner told members of Enid Rotary Club.
"This is an Oklahoma issue that is an earthquake issue. It is nothing more and it's nothing less," Skinner said. "For us, it's an oil and gas issue as well, because that's what we have jurisdiction over that the seismologists say pertains to earthquakes."
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My parents, who lived in California for 30 years, have felt more earthquakes in Kansas in the last 4 years than their entire time in California.
No, I absolutely do not subscribe to fracking as the cause.
Wow..... were it fracking wouldn’t Texas an the Dakotas be quaking as well at the frequency you in Oklahoma and Kansas are experiencing ?
Stay Safe ...
Or, is that just a distraction from Oklahoma?
And you'd be scientifically correct, based on recent publications by the federal and state geological survey agencies. Those papers say the problems are with the waste disposal wells where produced salt water from the fracked wells is re-injected back into a non-producing formation. The issues relate to volume, pressures, and the depth of the disposal formation in relation to the base rock of impermeable granite. It also relates to the pre-existing faults that are subject to seismic movement.
Read my #5 - it’s about re-injection of produced water, not the removal of oil. It doesn’t exist in large caverns underground, it’s permeable rock that holds oil in its pores.
Though many...they are small. If I were to worry about dangerous quakes in the MW, it would be in the New Madrid area. If we were to suffer the kinds of quakes we experienced in 1811-12, we are in deep doo doo.
What the frack! That’s too close.
Earthquakes like okra, corn on the cob and bbq.
I don’t know what is going on, but those are tiny. I don’t even feel them unless they are larger than a 5.0.
The scary one was Loma Priest - 7.1. It seemed to go on forever. 45 seconds is a long time when you’re having an earthquake.
I felt seasick after it. For 24 hours thete were so many aftershocks.
Hopefully They’ll figure out what’s going in in Oklahoma.
Quakes over the past day in the US.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
“. . . . there shall be earthquakes in diverse places . .
Found in Matthew 24:7
That video showing the earth breathing is weird as can be: youtu.be/njTmKCPEXwY
NW New Mexico and SE New Mexico are still on solid ground after over seventy years of fracking.
Its been over 200 years since the New Madrid ripped.. creep happens.. and eventually..
Prepare as best ya can.
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