By Alexander Smith
...The strongest in a series of ten minor earthquakes (click here) hit central Oklahoma on Sunday night, according to seismologists.
The quake was initially measured at magnitude 4.2 but was later downgraded to a 3.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
It was followed by three
aftershocks between magnitude 3.0 and 2.7, taking the total number of
earthquakes in the area to 10 since Friday.
The
strongest of these quakes hit at 11 p.m. Sunday (midnight ET) about 7
miles southwest of Guthrie, a city of 10,000 people about 30 miles north
of Oklahoma City....
Hydraulic fracturing is not a benign technology. It has permanent and irretrievable side effects. Those irretrievable side effects is what many scientists have been focusing on for some time now. The first analysis that aligned Fracking with earthquakes was in Texas. The earthquakes in Texas and other places in the USA have been increasing and the severity of them are becoming destructive.
Liquefaction on Kilmore St (Asher Trafford) in Christchurch, New Zealand.
This is what the USA has to look forward to now. There isn't any concrete structure that can stop the quakes and the increasing potential to liquefaction because the rock has been profoundly DISSOLVED. If the truth be known and logic applied, the very act of fracking by melting rock is itself liquefaction.
In addition to the act of liquefaction in the fracking of rock, there is the removal of gas pockets that act as shock absorbers to 'real' earthquakes. Now that the rock is melted and the shock absorbers removed the manmade earthquakes are going to be far more destructive. As the earthquakes progress and the land and rock above the melted rock meets with movement, it will increase a liquefaction state.
I have one question. Just one. Now that governors believe they have solved their unemployment problems, where are those now employed going to live in the near future?
This is the North American Craton. The most or was the most stable rock to the continent.
I am just waiting for the first fracking quake near a major city because then something will be done, but, it might be too late. And what is EPA's response? It is working to be sure water supplies are safe and the chemicals used by the petroleum industry are revealed.
Really? Is that all? What is the EPA's answer to manmade earthquakes? I think FEMA needs to get ready. Maybe the EPA and FEMA needs to meet with the USGS and find out what actually is a problem with melting rock. If USGS hasn't got a clue, there is plenty of evidence already and they need to stop looking the other way because 'the law' states this is all legal.
Kansas is in the southern end of the North American Craton. Earthquakes? Huh? It would seem as though the Obama Administration needs to assign this hideous form of extracting natural gas to an agency that can REGULATE it in a meaningful way. Earthquakes are only a concern of FEMA at this time. That isn't good enough. Those that believe this is a legal and benevolent method of energy have no appreciation for a sovereign nation.
February 17
By MIKE HENDRICKS
The Kansas City Star
In addition to the act of liquefaction in the fracking of rock, there is the removal of gas pockets that act as shock absorbers to 'real' earthquakes. Now that the rock is melted and the shock absorbers removed the manmade earthquakes are going to be far more destructive. As the earthquakes progress and the land and rock above the melted rock meets with movement, it will increase a liquefaction state.
I have one question. Just one. Now that governors believe they have solved their unemployment problems, where are those now employed going to live in the near future?
I am just waiting for the first fracking quake near a major city because then something will be done, but, it might be too late. And what is EPA's response? It is working to be sure water supplies are safe and the chemicals used by the petroleum industry are revealed.
Really? Is that all? What is the EPA's answer to manmade earthquakes? I think FEMA needs to get ready. Maybe the EPA and FEMA needs to meet with the USGS and find out what actually is a problem with melting rock. If USGS hasn't got a clue, there is plenty of evidence already and they need to stop looking the other way because 'the law' states this is all legal.
Kansas is in the southern end of the North American Craton. Earthquakes? Huh? It would seem as though the Obama Administration needs to assign this hideous form of extracting natural gas to an agency that can REGULATE it in a meaningful way. Earthquakes are only a concern of FEMA at this time. That isn't good enough. Those that believe this is a legal and benevolent method of energy have no appreciation for a sovereign nation.
February 17 By MIKE HENDRICKS
The Kansas City Star
Killer tornadoes, (click here) sizzling summers, treacherous ice storms.
Barbara Scott was prepared for all that and more when she moved from
Denver to Bluff City, Kan., a half dozen years ago.
But earthquakes? In Kansas?
“It’s like the earth just rolled under my house, raised it up and lowered it down,” she said of the quake that struck last month between Bluff City and Caldwell.
Further rattling Scott was the possibility that the earthquake was man-made, a byproduct of our lust for energy.
“We thought it might be the fracking,” she said. “We have so much of that going on down here.”...
But earthquakes? In Kansas?
“It’s like the earth just rolled under my house, raised it up and lowered it down,” she said of the quake that struck last month between Bluff City and Caldwell.
Further rattling Scott was the possibility that the earthquake was man-made, a byproduct of our lust for energy.
“We thought it might be the fracking,” she said. “We have so much of that going on down here.”...
