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Everyone panic. The fracking induced earthquakes are coming to kill you all
hotair.com ^ | 3/29/2016 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 03/29/2016 8:13:31 AM PDT by rktman

Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post is out to save you all from a potential catastrophe. The evil oil and gas industry is going to cause most of the people reading this to flee in terror from their homes as earthquakes ravage the land and zombies begin to feast on the flesh of the living.

Okay.. it’s not quite that bad, but a quick read of this study will likely have you checking for the nearest exits in your buildings. You see, fracking is causing earthquakes in unusual places (which is actually true, though not nearly on the calamitous scale as is implied) and it could impact up to half the people in the country.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assclowns; dimbulbs; earthquakes; energy; fracking
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Uh, Jazz, "actually true"? Possibly true. Maybe. Anyway, come on folks, we gotta pick our poison. Are we gonna drown due to human caused ocean level rise or get shaken to death by human caused erf quakes.
1 posted on 03/29/2016 8:13:31 AM PDT by rktman
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Relieving the overstressed Erf in small doses should help minimize the possibility of The Big One.


2 posted on 03/29/2016 8:16:33 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Yup, venting off some gasses and relieving some pressure should help deter jellystone from going BOOM! :>)


3 posted on 03/29/2016 8:23:01 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Is this yet another use of a scientific field to push an agenda? The left captured Meteorology, has it now captured Geology?

What the scientific whores fail to recognize is by accepting federal funds and federal governance they are in the process of destroying their credibility.

4 posted on 03/29/2016 8:25:59 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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No, fracking does not cause earthquakes. Down hole disposal of large quantities of wastewater pumped from fracked wells MAY cause small earthquakes if done improperly in unsuitable formations or in large quantities. We do not have that problem in SE New Mexico as the formations have permeability that allows injection with no earthquake consequences. In tight shale areas, other types of disposal/treatment/reuse must be considered to avoid this problem.

This is nothing more than the anti-fossil fuel, global warming, climate change fascists doing their “sky is falling” dance.


5 posted on 03/29/2016 8:26:38 AM PDT by CedarDave (Extremist Muslims want to kill you; moderate Muslims want extremist Muslims to kill you.)
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The Fracking ————. Is that the start of a new curs phrase?


6 posted on 03/29/2016 8:27:20 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

To them, money is money. Declined to the point of agreeing to just about any agenda as long as the money is right.


7 posted on 03/29/2016 8:27:35 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Hmmm. CedarDave. Do I know you? Did you go to high school in Abq? Anyway, the NM geology is yugely diverse and can tolerate a lot of activity.


8 posted on 03/29/2016 8:30:02 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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9 posted on 03/29/2016 8:32:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Down near the bottom of the USGS paper is the following sentence:

Many questions have been raised about hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—and USGS studies suggest that this process is only rarely the cause of felt earthquakes.

That is the only reference to "fracking" in the entire USGS paper!!

10 posted on 03/29/2016 8:35:19 AM PDT by CedarDave (Extremist Muslims want to kill you; moderate Muslims want extremist Muslims to kill you.)
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LOL! Sounds a lot like settled science then.


11 posted on 03/29/2016 8:36:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Seems to me this was the plot of a bad Christmas movie starring Jacklyn Smith that my kids liked when they were little.


12 posted on 03/29/2016 8:41:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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No, I didn’t go to high school in NM. As far as earthquakes go, they are not unusual along the fault line known as the Rio Grande rift.


13 posted on 03/29/2016 8:41:37 AM PDT by CedarDave (Extremist Muslims want to kill you; moderate Muslims want extremist Muslims to kill you.)
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Is this yet another use of a scientific field to push an agenda? Yes.

The left captured Meteorology, has it now captured Geology? They're trying.

14 posted on 03/29/2016 8:50:47 AM PDT by CedarDave (Extremist Muslims want to kill you; moderate Muslims want extremist Muslims to kill you.)
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Brian Whitman on a local radio show here today tried insinuating that fracking was the cause of earthquakes in Oklahoma. His co-worker who lived there said earthquakes were always happening there.

BTW the biggest earthquakes were the New Madrid, Missouri ones and that happened in 1811 and 1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%9312_New_Madrid_earthquakes


15 posted on 03/29/2016 9:06:49 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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NW and SE New Mexico have been stable for years even though fracking has been going on for decades.


16 posted on 03/29/2016 9:09:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Well, I guess a “journalist” is much more informed about fracking than drilling engineers who have spent their careers fracking in Oklahoma. Fracking has been going on since the 1960’s, and now it is a problem?


17 posted on 03/29/2016 9:10:13 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=CPUSA)
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Right now I would just about welcome them.

Where is the Sweet Meteor of Death I was promised?

18 posted on 03/29/2016 9:13:26 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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LOL! Okay. I have an old high school friend named Dave and he lives out in Cedar Crest so there was the thought.


19 posted on 03/29/2016 9:14:56 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: minnesota_bound

Earthquakes are always happening here now. 5 years ago, we had almost zero. Now we have more than California. Over 500 last year. They are not caused by fracking, however. It is the wastewater injection wells that activated the fault line running through eastern OK. Work is being done to manage that better, and hopefully, they will calm back down.

The sky is not falling and very little damage has actually been done. One spring gust front causes more damage than all the earthquakes we have had combined. It is just scary for the more cajones impaired people. I will admit to not caring much for being thrown out of bed at 3:00 in the morning. Better that, than the tornado sirens going off.


20 posted on 03/29/2016 9:16:59 AM PDT by okkev68
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