Earthquakes in Texas?

The Barbarian

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Texas is normally one of the more boring states tectonically. But...

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USGS confirms 4 quakes in Irving Tuesday, including two after 8 p.m.

One rocked the building where Mrs. B was working late. I'm a little jealous. I've only been in one earthquake, but it was a very mild one in Los Angeles, and I was walking to fast to notice it. No one knows what's going on exactly, but some are blaming the fracking used in gas wells nearby. Seismologists haven't supported that, so far.
 
Levolor

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The Barbarian said:
Texas is normally one of the more boring states tectonically. But...

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USGS confirms 4 quakes in Irving Tuesday, including two after 8 p.m.

One rocked the building where Mrs. B was working late. I'm a little jealous. I've only been in one earthquake, but it was a very mild one in Los Angeles, and I was walking to fast to notice it.
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That is unusual!

No one knows what's going on exactly, but some are blaming the fracking used in gas wells nearby. Seismologists haven't supported that, so far.
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Of course not. ;)
 
chrysostom

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The Barbarian said:
Texas is normally one of the more boring states tectonically. But...

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USGS confirms 4 quakes in Irving Tuesday, including two after 8 p.m.

One rocked the building where Mrs. B was working late. I'm a little jealous. I've only been in one earthquake, but it was a very mild one in Los Angeles, and I was walking to fast to notice it. No one knows what's going on exactly, but some are blaming the fracking used in gas wells nearby. Seismologists haven't supported that, so far.
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it is not often that you find a post as interesting as this one
it raises many questions:

is he really interested in earthquakes?
is he really interested in fracking?
who exactly is blaming fracking used in gas wells?
what does this tell you about the barbarian?
 
The Barbarian

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frickin frackin. we're due for some big ones. i live on the new madrid fault
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That one would not be caused by fracking; the fault is buried under miles of other strata that are not easily penetrated by water or other fluids. I know a little about that fault, because years ago, when I worked for an insurance company, some person published a book, predicting another big one from that fault.

So what? So we were insuring a huge construction project in northern Arkansas. The manager wanted an assessment. I was an ergonomist, but the loss control manager thought that meant "anything weird."

So I flew to Arkansas, reading up on the New Madrid earthquake, and the geology of the Ozark plateau (turns out they aren't really mountains, just a badly eroded plateau).

All I could tell the underwriter was that it wasn't very likely to happen during the project, but if it did, there wasn't much you could do to protect the project, short of engineering that would delay it and run the cost through the roof.
 
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The Barbarian said:
Texas is normally one of the more boring states tectonically. But...

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USGS confirms 4 quakes in Irving Tuesday, including two after 8 p.m.

One rocked the building where Mrs. B was working late. I'm a little jealous. I've only been in one earthquake, but it was a very mild one in Los Angeles, and I was walking to fast to notice it. No one knows what's going on exactly, but some are blaming the fracking used in gas wells nearby. Seismologists haven't supported that, so far.
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I'm visiting my son in San Antonio and the earthquakes have been mentioned in passing on the news. So far, no one seems particularly concerned.
I should think the burden of proof would be on the "frackers" to assure us that fracking is not causing these earthquakes.
I was in a 6.5 earthquake in Acapulco many years ago. Without a doubt it was the most terrifying experience of my life.
 
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I should think the burden of proof would be on the "frackers" to assure us that fracking is not causing these earthquakes.
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It is clear that injection of fluids into unstable faults can produce earthquakes. Ironically, the only demonstrated examples have not been by fracking, AFAIK.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/seminars/2013-12-02/

It's going to be an issue in Dallas because some exploration companies have been somewhat devious in their dealing with the governments of some suburbs. That always makes people suspicious.
 
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chrysostom said:
well the burden of proof is not on the barbarian

he just has to suggest something to get you worried
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Well dearie, as a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, auntie and great-auntie, I have family that I love and would do anything to protect.
My mother used to say "It is my job to worry!"
We used to laugh at that. Now I have moved into her shoes!
Worry is not the same as going into orbit over something... although, I can do that too!
 
chrysostom

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bybee said:
Well dearie, as a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, auntie and great-auntie, I have family that I love and would do anything to protect.
My mother used to say "It is my job to worry!"
We used to laugh at that. Now I have moved into her shoes!
Worry is not the same as going into orbit over something... although, I can do that too!
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teach them to worry about
jobs
taxes
freedom
and
maybe they won't worry about their shadow
 
Buzzword

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Oklahoma has become more earthquake-prone than California in the last few years, correlative in timeframe to the beginning of fracking in the state.
 
chrysostom

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Buzzword said:
Oklahoma has become more earthquake-prone than California in the last few years, correlative in timeframe to the beginning of fracking in the state.
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shagster01 said:
I live in Northern Colorado and we had our first recorded Earth Quake EVER last spring, right underneath a fracking site. They called it coincidence.
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more liberal scare tactics
they don't want us to produce our own energy
 
chrysostom

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we don't need fracking
it is just technology that will reduce our dependence of foreign oil
it will also result in more jobs
don't you wonder why the price of oil is going down?
the arabs want us to keep buying their oil

earthquakes?
do you want one big one?
or
a lot of little ones?
fracking can reduce localized stress
california knows the longer they go without an earthquake
the more likely they will get a big one

so the choice is yours
our government will continue to provide health care, food stamps, earned income credit just in case you can't get a real job
 
PureX

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Being that it's Texas, it's pointless to even consider a reasonable scientific explanation; as clearly it's an expression of God's wrath about something.

I'm sure Pat Robertson will figure it out and let us know, whatever it is. He seems to have God's wrath all figured out.
 
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PureX said:
Being that it's Texas, it's pointless to even consider a reasonable scientific explanation; as clearly it's an expression of God's wrath about something.

I'm sure Pat Robertson will figure it out and let us know, whatever it is.
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...and just as surely you shall let us know your thoughts in your own inimitably snide, all knowing and patronizing fashion.
 
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