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from Grist:
On the heels of a report linking 77 earthquakes in Ohio to fracking, a Texas city in an area rife with drilling operations was hit with a wave of 11 earthquakes in 24 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. The most intense registered 3.6 on the Richter scale, well over the level at which people would feel it the local 911 service received more than 300 calls from residents trying to figure out what was going on.
These recent quakes bring the total number to 26 since October in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. James Joiner reports at The Daily Beast that north Texas has seen more than a hundred quakes since 2008, when fracking operations began to ramp up, a dramatic increase from years previous.
Something similar is going on in neighboring Oklahoma, where, as we mentioned yesterday, there have been 586 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in just one year the most of any state in the contiguous U.S. in 2014. Between 1975 and 2008, the state only got, on average, three earthquakes of this magnitude per year. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/news/texas-city-in-fracking-area-is-rocked-by-11-earthquakes-in-24-hours/
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)to tell us there's no connection...
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)and those that will not commit. If the Pres should decide that fracking is bad, they will emerge and wave the banner like they are now with the XL (Koch) Pipeline.
Fracking is one of the issues, like the TPP, which separates the progressives from the pro-Corps.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)made that decision as it was not his position for a long time. We thought it was going to be a huge fight up here for a number of years. But he suddenly announced that he had decided to ban it completely.
Everyone who cares about the planet should be condemning this dangerous business. I was surprised also to see that even on the Corporate Media last night, when they reported on the Texas earthquake story, they actually did mention Fracking as a possible cause.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)if you want to get technical about it. But if you're a fence sitter on fracking you are--de facto--pro-fracking.
It's an either/or thing by now, since everyone more or less finally understands it. States that are gung-ho fracking are backward states.
I have seen a few come here and actually try to defend it.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)"fence-sit" waiting for guidance from the President.
marions ghost
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cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)billions of years before humans even existed is why they support the injection of chemicals that can potentially contaminate their water supplies.
I mean talk about your boneheaded things to do.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Disgusting
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)the city made of glass. Should be interesting times there.
I was thinking along similar lines.
Irving is a close suburb of Dallas.
Wait till this affects the big city.
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)Must be the San Irving fault...
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)fracking, thats not to say that the fracking isnt the trigger though and it wouldnt surprise me if it was but since the faults do exist it means proving it was the fracking is going to take alot of work.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Even though Texas is tectonically stable, we still have some huge faultlines. And surprise, surprise - they run right through that area.
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)or even two?
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)He's trying to tell the people of Texas something important. What ever can it be?
ananda
(28,874 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)I hope Coloradans wake up soon. Already feeling tremors in the east.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)They really need to speed it up some. ;>
Takket
(21,616 posts)Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)Well, we made it through at least one day without feeling an earthquake.
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But following Thursday mornings pair o mini-temblors near the former Texas Stadium site, the U.S. Geological Survey confirms your tweets and emails following some late-morning shaking going on in Irving. Only this one was in Dallas.
Says the USGS, we had a 2.6-magnitude quake at 11:39 along Harry Hines Boulevard, near the Webb Chapel Extension split at Bachman Lake. The ghost of Club Schmitz!
Thats No. 15 since Tuesdays 3.5-magnitude quake that half the people in your office felt. Ive lost count how many thats been since September something like 30. Could be a thousand. Hard to say. And as a Northwest Dallas resident, Im also suffering from Phantom Quake Syndrome. Or PTSD. Could just be those new cracks in the wall.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/usgs-confirms-2-6-magnitude-earthquake-friday-morning-near-bachman-lake-in-northwest-dallas.html/
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Don't you go trying to get all science-y with me just because we're pumping chemicals deep into the ground in order to force other things out.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I have apprehensive of the tracking process from the start and either it is going to be banned or the process will change to prevent results of earthquakes. Perhaps tracking can work in areas where there are not any faults but it does not end well in some places.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)The earthquakes have been going on for months. They present their findings next week. Fracking has been discussed on the news regularly in relation to the earthquakes.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Republican this week who lives in the area, she also thinks it is the tracking. Some regulations needs to be added or just stop the process.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)I think it's a combination of a fault line and fracking. They're fracking all over the area and the earthquakes are only happening in Irving.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They were talking with some university researcher in Texas who had been monitoring the situation. She acknowledged that fracking might have something to do with the seismic activity and her lab was looking hard at that. She also stated that there were many other possibilities for causes, though she didn't specify any. I couldn't help thinking, "Yeah, and if your lab depends for its funding on oil company largesse to any degree, let me guess how long it will be before you're comfortable publicly pointing the finger at fracking."
I'm confident that this being Texas, and as wide open for business as the Lone Star State is, if fracking is the culprit we won't know it for sure in my lifetime (which is to say the next 25 years).
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Thanks!
Ron Green
(9,823 posts)the earth would move several times a day.