California unseated as earthquake capital by unlikely newcomer

[bananas]

Source: KPCC FM

California is no longer the earthquake
capital of the contiguous U.S., and even
earthquake capital Alaska has been
surpassed by an unlikely new contender,
according to a new report.

That new capital is Oklahoma. Before
2009, the Sooner state was barely on the
map, according to stats provided by the
United States Geological Survey.

According to the Center for Investigative
Reporting's study :

Oklahoma recorded more than three
times as many earthquakes as
California in 2014 and remains well
ahead in 2015. Data from the U.S.
Geological Survey shows that
Oklahoma had 562 earthquakes of
magnitude 3.0 or greater in 2014;
California had 180. As of Jan. 31,
Oklahoma recorded 76 earthquakes
of that magnitude, compared with
California’s 10.

According to the Advanced National
Seismic System global catalog, in
2014, Oklahoma even beat Alaska,
the nation’s perennial leader in
total earthquakes, though many
small events in remote areas go
unrecorded there.

CIR's report found Kansas, Texas, Ohio
and Colorado all had major upswings in
seismic activity in recent years.

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Read more: http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/02/08/49726/california-unseated-as-earthquake-capital-by-unlik/

[Mojorabbit]

1. I wonder what will have to happen to make people

wake up and stop this from happening.

[Renew Deal]

4. Is it possible to stop it?

I know fracking practices can stop, but is the damage done?

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Fault lubrication of this type can be turned on and off like a tap.

It's how the effect was discovered in the first place. The army was pumping wastewater into the ground for 'disposal'. The nearest univeristies started recording curious swarms of microquakes and small quakes, that began and ended like the normal human 8 hour workday...

When they stop injecting the water, things will quickly go back to normal seismically. What won't go back to normal, is the quality of the groundwater.

[deurbano]

2. Wow.

[HereSince1628]

3. Yah, what the frack is -THAT- about???

Whaddya think the wise guys at Farmer's Insurance Co thinks about THAT?

[deurbano]

5. LOL! (I mean, except for the crying.)

It's just amazing how FAST this kind of change can happen. We are not to be trusted.

[NaturalHigh]

16. Simple - they don't sell earthquake insurance here anymore.

We had to go through a third-party company to get ours, and it's triple what it used to be through Farmers.

[HereSince1628]

17. I sort of guessed it would look something like that.

But OK has all those new jobs that come from fracking and pipelining so it works ok fine, r.i.g.h.t.?

[Jack Rabbit]

6. In California, we have better, all-natural earthquakes

Oklahoma's earthquakes are manufactured by a bunch if climate science denying, motherfracking Koch heads.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Ok, *that* was funny right there.

Holy shit

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. CA does have the highest quality quakes in all of North America!

OK quakes are CA quake wannabees!

[greiner3]

18. OK doesn't have CA quaking in their boots; yet!

[Brother Buzz]

19. You may want to tell that to the old Prune Pickers in Healdsburg

Healdsburg has had: (M1.5 or greater)

11 earthquakes today
30 earthquakes in the past 7 days
122 earthquakes in the past month
1,571 earthquakes in the past year




According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth Sciences division, seismicity was very low prior to the use of the Geyser steam field for geothermal energy, although this may have been the result of low seismic coverage of the area. Before 1969, there were no earthquakes above magnitude 2 recorded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in an approximately 70 square miles (180 km2) area around the Geysers.Studies have shown that injecting water into the Geysers field produces earthquakes from magnitude 0.5 to 3.0, although a 4.6 occurred in 1973 and magnitude four events increased thereafter. Even with increasing injection rates over time, the rate of magnitude 3 earthquakes has remained relatively unchanged since the 1980s,[11] although the amount of earthquakes has increased significantly. A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck near the Geysers on January 12, 2014. Despite the increases in the number of earthquakes and the fears of local residents, it is unlikely that a large earthquake will occur at the Geysers since there is no large earthquake fault or fracture nearby.

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Thank you for the information, Bro

[Brother Buzz]

21. I wasn't aware they were 'man made' earthquakes until just recently, either

Nevertheless, the Prune Pickers can hold their heads high: Their tally of total earthquakes rivals that of the entire state of Oklahoma.


Healdsburg has had: (M1.5 or greater)

11 earthquakes today
30 earthquakes in the past 7 days
122 earthquakes in the past month
1,571 earthquakes in the past year


Oklahoma, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater)

3 earthquakes today
46 earthquakes in the past 7 days
196 earthquakes in the past month
1,643 earthquakes in the past year


Eat prunes at night and wake up with that get-up-and-go feeling.

[Jack Rabbit]

22. Trust the MSM to keep us uninformed

!!

[valerief]

7. Fracklohoma. nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

14. That should be the new DU nickname for Oklahoma. I'm using it!

[davidpdx]

10. The people in Oklahoma are thinking...

maybe California is not so dangerous after all.

[herding cats]

11. What I find scary is how so many still try and deny the injection wells are the cause.

What exactly does it take for some people to get a clue if a sudden onset of earthquakes isn't enough?

[blkmusclmachine]

12. The Christofascists blame marriage equality in 3 - 2 - 1...

[NaturalHigh]

15. Woo-hoo! My state is number one!

Coincidentally, and I mention it only in passing, the area that is getting shaken to pieces has been fracked down to the mantle.

[moondust]

23. Probably some sort of Sharia Law Effect.

God is signaling his anger.