5.3 Quake Colorado

[itsrobert]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/36.38.-106.-104.php

update, now 5.3

15 km (9 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado

[Creideiki]

1. Couldn't feel it in Denver

[Ohio Joe]

13. Nope, me either - nt

[originalpckelly]

15. I couldn't as well.

I was still asleep.

[Champion Jack]

2. Are they fracking near there?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Colorado No. 2 in carcinogen-laced "fracking" fluids

http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_17905497

[hobbit709]

4. That part of the country is somewhat geologically active.

[Robb]

5. Indeed. Has been for as long as has been recorded. It's all relative, of course.

I think most of the west coast would snicker at what we consider "active." :D

[Le Taz Hot]

7. Well, I wasn't going to say anything . . .

but 5.3 . . . :yawn: ;-)

[hobbit709]

9. 4.6 six hours earlier than the 5.3.

[SpiralHawk]

6. The Ugly Reality of Fracking in Trinidad, Colorado

http://www.trinidadco.com/methane-gas-drilling/ugly-reality-of-fracking/

[LaurenG]

10. I didn't know they were fracking in Trinidad.

I think they will find direct correlation between fracking and earthquakes in certain regions of the country.

Not to mention poisoned water.

[Robb]

16. Poisoned water, maybe; but earthquakes in the 3-5 range are quite common

...and have been since the 1900s, which is when we started looking at them.

I used to spend a lot of time with the fellow who owned the Raton newspaper; every time there was an earthquake (every few years), he'd trot out a historical piece one of the old-timers wrote for him in the 1960s, about all the quakes. Southern CO and northern NM are about as unstable as things get in the West (and not terribly, I'd add, as I said above).

[LaurenG]

17. NPR did a story about a town in Alabama

that had a terrible increase in earthquakes. The town finally rid themselves of the frackers and the quaking just quit. Coincidence I suppose but still an interesting story.

[LaurenG]

22. And I mean Arkansas not Ala. Sorry. nt

[SpiralHawk]

8. EPA picks Las Animas County (Trinidad) to study Fracking Problems

This county is kind of a Frack Freak Central

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2011/06/epa-fracking-study-to-target-las.html

[Champion Jack]

26. +1,000

[Overseas]

11. K&R.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Hmmm....maybe DU should change the terminology from 'kicks' to 'fracks'

[Major Hogwash]

14. How many fracking times have we tried to do just that with little or no success?

It's not even in the DU spell checker.
It keeps telling me to change it to "frocking".
But I don't want to say frocking, so it's a Catch-22 sort of situation.

[fishwax]

18. Colorado's biggest quake since 1973, apparently

[isuphighyeah]

19. I was asleep. It didn't wake me. n/t

[DearAbby]

20. I felt an odd one last night

here in Golden, just a few minutes before midnight last night, I attributed it to LaFarge which is just up the road dynamiting, until I noted the time. It was a rolling feeling, and made me feel like I was swaying to the left. Building swayed, Husband noted it as well, he actually got under a door frame.

It had to been very small. I didnt read anything about it in the morning papers. So I donno what the hell it was.

[ladyVet]

21. hope you guys are okay out there! nt

[zappaman]

23. HAARP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMwr3t4BNs

[hobbit709]

24. Chemtrails

[SpiralHawk]

25. Sucker Puppets

Clatter all over the damn place.

[madokie]

27. There was a small one of 2.8 at Jones Oklahoma last night

the talking heads on the teevee told me so this morning. Hell I don't even know where Jones ok is

Maybe mother planet is angry?