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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3.7 earthquake here
About 15 minutes ago, northeast part of town (Greeley CO). Loud boom, the building jerked once. Don't know about reports of damage yet.
And, yes, we're smack dab in the middle of fracking country.
Sheeeeeyut!
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)However if your local media is anything like ours you can expect that they'll find a tiny podunk market where some cans were knocked off a shelf and they'll use footage of the canned beaned bean disaster for a week.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)LA and Eureka; this was a single jolt and haven't felt any after-jolts. Unlike California, this area is not prone to quakes so lots of folks are justifiably startled, scared, very concerned. And we cannot ignore that we're at 21 thousand fracking wells in the county, several hundred in the city.
hlthe2b
(102,328 posts)I was watching 9 news and their incredible cluelessness. That it could be related to fracking has clearly not even remotely occurred to them.
sigh....
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)I can't help hoping that it scared the crap out of our mayor and city council. We're kind of tired of being told that our concerns are irrelevant.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Are you alright?
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)Still a bit startled, but other than that, just hoping that this isn't the start of a seismic trend like those seen in Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and other places that are being over-drilled.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I've never been in an earthquake, but hurricanes, I know about. Glad everyone is okay!
Laffy Kat
(16,385 posts)I wish I had. I felt one in Memphis long time ago and thought it was interesting.
womanofthehills
(8,744 posts)KinderMorgan is building a CO2 pipeline from St Johns Helium fields in Arizona (getting the CO2 from very deep wells) crossing middle NM to bring the CO2 to the oil fields in west Texas. After they can no longer frack with water, they use the CO2 to get a lot more oil out of the shale. Our little rural town, with the help of the Sierra Club, is protesting this pipeline coming through our land.
chrisstopher
(152 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Cha
(297,471 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)where money is more important than anything else.