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Fracking Led to Ohio Earthquakes

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http://www.livescience.com/49326-fracking-caused-ohio-earthquakes.html
The biggest quake, a magnitude 3, was one of the largest ever caused by fracking. State officials shut down the well two days after the earthquake hit.

Fracking involves the high-pressure injection of water, sand and chemicals into rock to break it up and release trapped oil and gas. In Ohio, fracking triggered earthquakes on a hidden fault in ancient crystalline rock beneath a natural gas well in the Utica Shale, according to the study, published today (Jan. 5) in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
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,.. study found here; http://www.bssaonline.org/content/e...ract?sid=93c90be0-cb9d-4406-88a9-61031b203c85

No earthquakes were ever recorded in this region of Ohio before fracking started, and the shaking stopped after the well was shut down, said lead study author Robert Skoumal, a graduate student in seismology at Miami University in Ohio. Skoumal and other Miami University researchers identified 77 earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 1 to 3 that occurred from March 4 to 12.
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But, that's OK - we because we can totally prop up and fix what has collapsed in the Earth - I mean, Christopher Reeves did it;
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Most of the country laughs at anything less than a 4-5 quake.

Anything that changes the composition of a base will have some impact; question is how much and the value/cost as a result.

Pumping out oil has an impact.
Pumping water has an impact.

Should that be also stopped? What of the economic impact of either?
 
cabri said:
Most of the country laughs at anything less than a 4-5 quake.

Anything that changes the composition of a base will have some impact; question is how much and the value/cost as a result.

Pumping out oil has an impact.
Pumping water has an impact.

Should that be also stopped? What of the economic impact of either?
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Do you really think drilling for oil and pumping water have the same impact than fracking?

I wonder what the long-term effects of fracking would be. Would it turn normally a 4.0 earthquake into a 6.0 or worse?
 
schmuckley said:
Hah! riiight 😵

Next up:Yard tamping in America led to typhoons in Asia.

Instances of fracking jeopardizing drinking water = 0

[Golf Courses] cause more problems than fracking.
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I see a starling lack of required citations following these comments.

Also, edited last bit for accuracy. In that, I would agree with you.
 
Do you think that 100 years ago if people had known that entire housing subdivisions would one day be sinking into abandoned coal mines, that they would have mined any less coal?

No. Nor would they have built any fewer home on top of old coal mines.
 
we need links from NaturalNews and Infowars to take this seriously. Stewox, where are you?

Seriously though; there is a fault line that runs under Lake Erie. It causes tremors and quakes all over the Great Lakes areas. We get small ones twice a year here and once we had a 5. something that was pretty intense.
 
Doc Savage Fan said:
How much damage did these earthquakes cause?
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Is it barely possible you're missing the point? If fracking in an area with no history of earthquakes can cause a magnitude 3 quake, might fracking cause larger quakes in areas that DO have a history of seismic activity?

You see, if this paper had addressed a magnitude 7 earthquake in a fracked area with a history of lots of magnitude 4 quakes, I'd be willing to bet that the "drill, baby, drill" crowd would claim that the earthquake was complete "natural," with no cause and effect demonstrated. But in the current paper, going from 0 to 3 to 0 again, totally correlated with whether fracking was occurring, is pretty hard to rationalize. Except that you ARE rationalizing it by telling us that a 3.0 quake is no problem.

In other words, no study can ever prove to a closed mind that fracking poses seismic risks to the environment.
 
Conservatives wouldn't want to stop fracking if it awakened an ancient dragon who began laying waste to cities so long as it potentially dropped the price of gas by 10 cents a gallon.
 
thraashman said:
Conservatives wouldn't want to stop fracking if it awakened an ancient dragon who began laying waste to cities so long as it potentially dropped the price of gas by 10 cents a gallon.
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How many liberals gave up combustion powered vehicles and switched to human powered modes of transportation.

People will bitch/moan on everything but will not actually do something if it negatively impacts them.

No matter what their stripe it.
 
These are the result of man - we caused this. And, it's the usual pish-posh dismissiveness.

Why? Because it threatens cheaper gas and, it's just not that big of a deal - frack on boys!!

Not sure how you stop the earth under you from moving, after you've jolted it,.. but, what do the good ol'boys care? This, if anything, gives them one more reason to grope themselves on how "awesome" humanity is.
 
I think some people in this thread are missing a key point. The site was shut down. Scientists kept a close eye on the activity and when safe operating parameters were breached, they killed the site to further investigate. This is not showing the typical "devil-may-care" story that most anti-fracking opponents claim.
 
Subyman said:
I think some people in this thread are missing a key point. The site was shut down. Scientists kept a close eye on the activity and when safe operating parameters were breached, they killed the site to further investigate. This is not showing the typical "devil-may-care" story that most anti-fracking opponents claim.
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You are right. And that is good if the site was shut down and investigating done. If the study shows that it actually caused the earthquake, then other sites should be studied as well to see if a similar situation could occur.
 
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