Earthquake anyone?

[BAS]

Earliest one I remember was in the mid-1960s when I was a pre-schooler, living in Missouri. Three earthquakes (or aftershocks) since then, including one I apparently didn't even notice. (By the time the shaking reaches south-central Wisconsin, it can be pretty subtle.)

[Rabbette]

((((Rabbette)))) any damage there? I just have a bunch of stuff to pick up here.

Hi MDF - things seem ok so far. However I have not traveled anywhere to see if there are any damaged buildings. Heck i'm surprized that all the buildings didn't fall down around here considering how old they are.

I hope there wasn't too much there to clean up. Glad everyone seems safe

[knowmad]

How Fracking Causes Earthquakes

According to geologists, it isn’t the fracking itself that is linked to earthquakes, but the re-injection of waste salt water (as much as 3 million gallons per well) deep into rock beds.

Braxton County West Virginia (160 miles from Mineral) has experienced a rash of freak earthquakes (eight in 2010) since fracking operations started there several years ago. According to geologists fracking also caused an outbreak of thousands of minor earthquakes in Arkansas (as many as two dozen in a single day). It’s also linked to freak earthquakes in Texas, western New York, Oklahoma, and Blackpool, England (which had never recorded an earthquake before).

Industry scientists deny the link to earthquakes, arguing that energy companies have been fracking for nearly sixty years. However it’s only a dozen years ago that “slick-water fracks” were introduced. This form of fracking uses huge amounts of water mixed with sand and dozens of toxic chemicals like benzene, all of which is injected under extreme pressure to shatter the underground rock reservoir and release gas trapped in the rock pores. Not only does the practice utilize millions of gallons of freshwater per frack (taken from lakes, rivers, or municipal water supplies), the toxic chemicals mixed in the water to make it “slick” endanger groundwater aquifers and threaten to pollute nearby water-wells.

[Eric]

Not to be outdone we just had one in the SF area. No magnitude yet, but it was a quick bump of one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 625060.php


Magnitude 3.9. Basically a bus going by.

[knowmad]

Not to be outdone we just had one in the SF area. No magnitude yet, but it was a quick bump of one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 625060.php


Magnitude 3.9. Basically a bus going by.

Nah that was just some big time scalper jumping out the window when he discovered burners only pay face value + 10%

[Sic Pup]

[theCryptofishist]

Brillient, Sic Pup!

[Eric]

This was just sent to me:



It sent The Hubby into such hysterical laughter that he almost fell out the large window behind my desk. Sometimes he's more than his normal level of adorable.

[A Jester]

Not to be outdone we just had one in the SF area. No magnitude yet, but it was a quick bump of one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 625060.php


Magnitude 3.9. Basically a bus going by.

HA! A bus was going by right as it hit, and I wasn't sure if it was an earthquake until I realized the timing was off.