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Fracking causes earthquakes? (Formerly, anyone felt that earthquake?)

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Elixer

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Just felt a earthquake a few mins ago, lasted about 10 seconds or so.
No damage that I could tell, but the house was definitely swaying.

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Looks like it was a 4.2 magnitude earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

A moderate earthquake shook southwestern Michigan midday Saturday in a temblor that was felt across Lake Michigan in Chicago and its suburbs and as far east as Toledo and Detroit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
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This thread has turned into a pancakes vs waffles thread.

Or was it cake vs pie?

Meh, whatever. It has turned into another steaming pile and the OP has asked to lock it, which I have.


esquared
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I'm still waiting on the Yellowstone Volcano to explode these days with the Fracking 😛

Geology it might be a butterfly effect these days, the ways the plates seem to be moving these days.

Fracking might have caused the recent volcanos in south America and Other things like In Nepal.

I'm probably wrong but, but seems a lot of things are happening these days involving the whole infrastructure of the planet in general lately.

Highways and bridges might be the the least of the worries.
 
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Fracking in the US causing volcanoes in S. America or earthquakes in Nepal? Really :|

Uh, no.

I did not feel anything here in Ohio. Too far away I guess. Several years ago there was one that apparently was felt in Columbus but I was driving on the highways through Columbus at the time and with the bad roads you couldn't feel the difference between that low rumbling of a quake or just the rumbling of driving over a million bumpy potholes 😛
 
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Fracking in the US causing volcanoes in S. America or earthquakes in Nepal? Really 😵

Uh, no.

I did not feel anything here in Ohio.
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butterfly effect, man

just ask ashton kutcher

i thought i heard a sound around 12:30, but i think it might have just been a tractor
 
I hate these kind of posts from people who don't have the courtesy to list their location or region in the OP.
 
Why is it people flooded the 911 system with calls of "What was that?"
It wasn't an emergency, so, why tie up valuable resources?
 
Someone (EPA?) just put out a report lately that fracking has caused more earthquakes. Google it, I'm sure it will turn up.

Doesn't surprise me; break up the underlaying rock and what happens....?

What did surprise me, is that as soon as I saw that on the news, we are deluged by ads of "America is now the #1 oil producer!111" and it's because of joyous "Fracking!!!!".

Pretty good turn around time on the propaganda.
 
JamesV said:
Someone (EPA?) just put out a report lately that fracking has caused more earthquakes. Google it, I'm sure it will turn up.

Doesn't surprise me; break up the underlaying rock and what happens....?

What did surprise me, is that as soon as I saw that on the news, we are deluged by ads of "America is now the #1 oil producer!111" and it's because of joyous "Fracking!!!!".

Pretty good turn around time on the propaganda.
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100% BS on the fracking caused the earthquake.
There are 0 wells anywhere near the epicenter, but don't let that stop the anti-fracking people from telling the truth. 🙄
 
JamesV said:
Someone (EPA?) just put out a report lately that fracking has caused more earthquakes. Google it, I'm sure it will turn up.

Doesn't surprise me; break up the underlaying rock and what happens....?

What did surprise me, is that as soon as I saw that on the news, we are deluged by ads of "America is now the #1 oil producer!111" and it's because of joyous "Fracking!!!!".

Pretty good turn around time on the propaganda.
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It was the Oklahoma Geological Survey, where the vast majority of earthquakes caused due to fracking have occurred over the last 5+ years. Maybe 10 years? (compared to all of the other instances in other states) Don't recall.

Pretty big deal, because despite the OGS knowing that this is most certainly the cause of the ~300%+ frequency increase in earthquakes, it has never been their "official" position. Oil is all the money there, and it's a big no-no to accept irrefutable facts when oil is involved.

Though, it's not the extraction process, but the wastewater injection back into the subsurface that is causing the earthquakes. Still part of the fracking process, but I guess there is some confusion as to what is going on.

Great article:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/weather-underground

The follow-up, that you mentioned:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/u...-gas-wells-as-major-cause-of-quakes.html?_r=0
 
Elixer said:
100% BS on the fracking caused the earthquake.
There are 0 wells anywhere near the epicenter, but don't let that stop the anti-fracking people from telling the truth. 🙄
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Was kinda cool a 30 X 70 mile long strip of land raised 3 ft in 30 seconds, and Mt Everest sunk a bit in the process.

Not really, sarcasm is involved there.

:colbert:

When the earth blows up I'll be right I guess, just hanging out till then.

🙂
 
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Yup. We were a bit South of GR and felt it. Not too bad some rattling for a about 30 seconds. My first earthquake. Where is that picture of a chair having fallen over?
 
Elixer said:
100% BS on the fracking caused the earthquake.
There are 0 wells anywhere near the epicenter, but don't let that stop the anti-fracking people from telling the truth. 🙄
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this one, no idea.

But it is 100% Fact that the fracking process has caused a shit-ton of earthquakes in the last decade.

You might as well deny gravity with the amount of cognitive dissonance required to ignore the substantial amount of evidence that is widely available.
 
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