There have been multiple aftershocks in Oklahoma City. That brings danger in that damage caused by each quake is compounded by subsequent quakes. The 'rattle and shake damage' aspect is cummulative.
...Oklahoma typically (click title to entry - thank you) had about 50 earthquakes a year until 2009. Then the number spiked, and 1,047 quakes shook the state last year, prompting researchers to install seismographs in the area. Still, most of the earthquakes have been small....
This one is an easy one to guess, isn't it? No different than the sinking of New Orleans. The Petroleum Industry. The PR campaign for 'One Oak' can tip anyone off to what is going to happen next. What will complete this picture is to realize how muich more fracking has gone on since 2009 in the same region of the increased incidence of SEIMIC ACTIVITY. Not earthquakes. This seimic activity is not due to the movement of the Earth's crust, it is due to the destruction of the craton and the solid rock structures under foot. It is my estimate the reporting of the spike in seimic activity in the public rhelm is a cry for help.
It is amazing how the petroleum industry likes to blame 'acts of god' for all the trouble they create. I think the residents of Oklahoma need to sue the fracking companies responsible for this damage. It wasn't got this time or many times before. There is no reason for the USA to have to open up the US Treasury to pay for damage caused by companies making a profit off adversity....This is not a natural earthquake. (click here) This is due to fracking operations going on in the area. Sorry for the folks making excuses for the oil and gas operations. This one is theirs at 5 km (3.1miles, 16,500 Feet). Its depth is square in the region affected by their drilling. It may in fact be exactly at their drill depth....
OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OBSERVATORY (click here)
OKLAHOMA EARTHQUAKE CATALOG
1882 OCT 22 afternoon NE I.T. 8 5.0 36. -95.
1915 NOV 08 ROGERS OK F 3.9 36.2000 -95.8000 T
1926 JUN 20 14 20 00.00 SEQUOYAH OK 5 4.3 35.6000 -94.9000 D
1929 DEC 28 00 30 00.00 CANADIAN OK 6 4.0 35.5000 -98.0000 U
Earthquake locations are from the USGS/NEIC PDE catalog. (click here)
Virtual Fracking Site (click here)
Hydraulic Fracturing Timeline (click here)
Instrumental Intensity Map (click here)
Average number of Earthquakes per Year per 12,300 km2, Magnitude 5 and Greater Shallow Earthquakes: Depth 0-70 km (click here)
SDWA amended to regulate over 100 specic drinking water contaminants; hydraulic fracturing, in practice at this point for nearly 40 years, never considered for SDWA regulation.
The problem with the Oklahoma Hydraulic Fracturing State Review is that it isn't a STATE ONLY review. It has devolved into a MITIGATION non-profit organization with petroleum industry member-stakeholders involved.
A mitigation group is NOT a "STRONGER" method of protecting citizens. These guys are getting away with effective regulation and review.
In 1999, administration of the State Review Program devolved to a non-profit, multi-stakeholder
organization named State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental Regulations, Inc.
(STRONGER). STRONGER again revised, expanded and updated the Guidelines, which were
accepted by the IOGCC and published in June 2000 as Guidelines for the Review of State Oil
and Natural Gas Environmental Regulatory Programs (the “2000 Guidelines”). In 2005,
STRONGER again revised, expanded and updated the Guidelines (the “2005 Guidelines”).
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In 2009, STRONGER formed a Hydraulic Fracturing Workgroup consisting of stakeholders to
review issues associated with hydraulic fracturing and develop guidelines for state regulatory
programs to address identified issues. After several meetings and a round of public comment,
the workgroup submitted to STRONGER a set of guidelines that represented the consensus of
the workgroup. In 2010, STRONGER distributed the workgroup’s guidelines (the “2010
Hydraulic Fracturing Guidelines”)...
Deep Shale Gas and Oil (click here)
Unlike shallow projects, such as shallow coalbed methane (CBM), the producible portions of deep shale natural gas and oil formations exist many thousands of feet below the surface. Across the U.S. the average depth of a Chesapeake well is 7,700 feet (almost 1.5 miles below the earth’s surface and many thousands of feet below freshwater formations). This number varies depending on the development area. Chesapeake does not conduct any production or fracking activities in fresh groundwater aquifers. In fact, across its deep shale gas operations, groundwater aquifers and producing formations are separated by thousands of feet of protective rock barriers.
How Deep Is 7,700 Feet?
- More than six Empire State Buildings stacked end to end
- 1½ times deeper than the deepest part of the Grand Canyon
- More than 25 football fields laid out goalpost to goalpost
