4.3 Earthquake in Eastern KY

Once our new Gov. signs away our souls.

Region? I don't know if they're fracking there...Looks like it's close to Hazard, KY...an appropriate name!

Hey why not, the more the better.

No snark intended femrap.....it's just here we are screwing up stuff, everyone (well, not everyone!) turns their head as they whistle past the graveyard, major media keeps the lid on tight and it just pisses me off to no end that so much of our $$ is spent on prehistoric fuel when we could be putting so much more into green energy.

Oh, there's no problem, everything's a-ok. Earthquakes in the area of just coincidence. Bad wells, well ya know yall shoulda been buying bottled water anyway and hey, a little arsenic is fine for you complexion......

I could just scream.

And yea, Hazard, KY is such an ironic name.

pretty well.

with you. Mountain top removal....WTF? How many have lost their water source from that? I lived in Lexington, KY for a few years and visited last year and there were all of these bumper stickers, "Friends of Coal." Again, WTF?

There are families in E. KY who are fighting each other over the Environment vs. Coal. From the air, one should see this mountain top removal...it's disgusting. A coal miner is willing to give his life for $73,000/year. They all die early...and then encourage their sons to do the same thing.

Look at Germany and what they have done regarding residential solar panels. Germany has very similar sunshine as does the Heartland of the US.

It's the Big Oil Boyz calling the shots. They own the Gov't. And gas drilling doesn't even have regulations? Again, WTF!
Thank you Dick 'heartless' Cheney.

The EPA is still filled with 'burrowers' from the W administration who are pro-oil. It's difficult to get rid of them when they go from appointee to civil servant.

Lexington, KY in that group. I lived there....educated people.

we're hillbillies. Well, not all of us. There are some citified folks. The town I live in is borderline bluegrass and the gateway to the mountains. A large percentage of the population in Eastern KY is Scots Irish. Came here after serving in the Revolutionary War. Land grants. Stayed put. Geographically challenged for generations and all the other challenges that came with that initial fact.

I think. I'm about an hour east of Lexington and you are describing my ancestors except throw in some Cherokee.

Mt. Sterling

My family is from Kentucky and I currently live in Lexington...please consider your words before you type.

Totally uncalled for comment...

Nobody is going to win these folks over by calling them redneck assholes. The folks down in coal country are in a tough spot and mining is all some of them know. And, yes, some of them know it is killing them, but they still have to feed their kids. I met a woman whose husband is disabled from mining, but yet she still went to that big rally in West Virginia a few years ago to protest Obama and to support coal. She wants her son to have a job in the mines. Go figure.

Or maybe they got the Ark wrong....


You say that's in northern KY? Well, god obviously ain't too accurate if he needs to wipe out NJ for NY's sins.... or MS and AL for NOLA's sins. Just plain sloppy!

Earlier in the week he kicked Joseph Smith in the shorts, now this ...

that's gettig close to the New Madrid fault.

we'd better hope that one doesn't kick off anytime soon-- as it is predicted to do.

The quake was something like 400 miles from New Madrid.

400 miles is "far"??

Not sure about that.

very light shaking on two occasions a few seconds apart at the time this quake was reported.

4.3 isn't huge, but it is big for the east coast.

was felt in New England.

That was just the very state itself shuddering over its new legislature

of you and we got a pretty rough shake. The children who live next door were very excited!

thanks

in newport. loved living there! Now i live in independence and didnt feel a thing

I often feel like a tiny blue speck in a sea of red. Thanks!

but there are more of us around here then you think

thanks for the information. talking dog. nice map btw .

Talking to a friend from New York City who is trying to put things back together after the hurricaine and I felt the quake. Told him to hold on a moment, something was going on. Told I thought we had just had an earthquake. No damage, just a few teacups and what nots rattling a bit.

4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles eastern Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) -- A 4.3 magnitude earthquake was reported in eastern Kentucky at 12:08 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

The earthquake was centered at Blackey which is in Letcher County.

I hope there are no more.

http://8020vision.com/2011/04/17/congress-releases-report-on-toxic-chemicals-used-in-fracking/

http://www.fracturedappalachia.org/share-your-story/

http://www.appalachiantransition.net/content/hydraulic-fracturing-rare-ky-appalachian-forum-poses-questions-about-regulation-and-pollutio


I had to come back with a thought. Why should it be this difficult to find information? You'd think there would be 1 website (something like NOAA which has a map of the United States listing all oil, shale oil, natural gas, coal drilling sites.

NO, it's not like that at all. Think it's to keep the public from coming to their own conclusions, based on evidence that there's something going on in the environment? or .


Is there one that I missed? Why shouldn't it be on the top of a Google search list?

Water, nitrogen, you're crumbling the world under the earth. I'd think after doing this enough times, something would shift and go boom.

here in Atlanta, GA. Just a couple seconds worth.

I live 60 miles East of Cincinnati, Ohio in Seaman, Ohio.

I felt it.

I knew immediately what it was.

It is the third earthquake I have experienced in Ohio.

The first one was in 1980.

in session.

I have more faith in the earthquake.

Near 1/2 million in NY. And they went away. Most Americans wanted it, it seems.

On the other hand, in the 20's and thirties, tens of thousands (when that was a much bigger percentage of the economy) of workers sat down, many simply on their own and not part of anything but sometimes loose affiliations, walked through the streets, shot and got shot at, . Unions and the New Deal was the result.

They made their presence felt. The same numbers today bringing things to a screeching halt would have the same power.

And if one can't make enough noise to overcome the media, maybe they ain't got as much to say as they think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

Most Americans didn't see or can't remember this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest

more powerful than Mother Nature...not even the 1%. In fact, in the blink of an eye, she could take all of their 'stuff' away!

She is pissed. This fracking may be the last straw.

sitting in a 100+ year old house with the plaster cracking and a 92 year old mother on the verge of freaking out.

30 miles east of Lexington, KY

My first thought: Fracking

At least your house can probably surevive an earth quake, not like newer housing.

Take care.

is not very helpful.

My husband is a code enforcement official and the International Building Code (which every body who enforces building codes uses ... hence International) calls for modern houses to be more resistant to earthquake shaking and not less.

In quake prone areas the requirements are even more stringent which is where the state and local codes come into play.

Funny, but I think manners is a good thing.

I feel pretty safe in my old house, having opened a few walls and seen that it was built with old cedar to double today's standards. I understand new earth quake standards allow for swaying, since a swaying tree will outlast a stiff one, but there is also something to be said about a strong house built on solid ground.

I am also sure that their old house is more fire retardant than a new house. since a fire chief died here recently and they say it is the new building materials of plywood cause buildings to collapse faster when they are on fire, the glue seems to burn hotter and faster than solid wood. .

1.- you will get more, most can't feel them. So explain that to mom...

2.- Have sturdy shoes and flashlight by your bed tonight.

...sorry, just had to say it.

This was larger than most, but earthquakes are not uncommon in the area. Just for an example, I ran a query at USGS using the coordinates of today's quake with a 100 km radius, and came up with 15 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or greater since 1984.

NEIC: Earthquake Search Results

U. S. G E O L O G I C A L S U R V E Y

E A R T H Q U A K E D A T A B A S E



FILE CREATED: Sat Nov 10 22:43:07 2012
Circle Search Earthquakes= 15
Circle Center Point Latitude: 37.161N Longitude: 83.034E
Radius: 100.000 km
Catalog Used: PDE
Data Selection: Historical & Preliminary Data


CAT YEAR MO DA ORIG TIME LAT LONG DEP MAGNITUDE IEM DTSVNWG DIST
NFO km
TF

PDE 1984 11 18 013106 37.03 82.34 33 4.5 mbGS ... ....... 63
PDE 1986 01 03 012720.96 36.53 83.81 33 4.2 mbGS ... ....... 98
PDE 1986 01 03 163109.74 36.63 83.89 33 4.4 mbGS ... ....... 96
PDE 1987 05 10 033623.49 36.98 82.30 10 4.6 mbGS ... ....... 68
PDE 1988 12 24 214156.83 36.65 83.53 33 4.8 mbGS ... ....... 72
PDE 1988 12 25 181255.13 36.77 83.40 33 4.4 mbGS ... ....... 54
PDE 1988 12 27 231407 36.59 83.56 33 5.0 mbGS ... ....... 78
PDE 1988 12 29 225521.54 36.53 83.26 33 4.2 mbGS ... ....... 72
PDE 1989 01 01 231307.98 36.69 83.44 10 4.3 mbGS ... ....... 63
PDE 1990 01 04 040909.78 36.48 82.57 10 4.5 mbGS ... ....... 86
PDE 1992 02 03 031554.30 37.29 82.02 33 4.1 mbGS ... ....... 90
PDE 2003 03 09 182402.74 36.52 83.48 10 4.3 mbGS ... ....... 81
PDE-W 2011 09 24 040858.84 36.38 82.53 10 4.3 mbGS ... ....... 98
PDE-W 2011 10 10 015542.63 36.41 82.63 10 4.3 mbGS ... ....... 90
PDE-W 2012 04 25 224958.63 36.42 82.55 10 4.6 mbGS ... ....... 92

And I'm pretty sure I was doing so without commentary

Tons, if I am understanding this map correctly. Doesn't say which are injection wells.
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Seriously?

ETA: I'm sorry, I forgot to say thanks.

PTxS

Must be God's will at work..