Hey, why all the Texas earthquakes???

[kjackson227]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/?region=Texas

Some think it's because of oil drilling.

http://durangotexas.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-barnett-shale-drilling-causing-texas.html

[tanyev]

1. Did they start soon after Dubya moved back?

[tammywammy]

3. No, there were some last Oct, the 30th and 31st I believe

in north Texas. I know my friends felt them in Bedford.

[tanyev]

5. Then I guess we can't make them stop by offering him up to the angry volcano god.

Too bad.

[sonias]

7. Are you sure the angry volcano god would want him?

Usually don't these sacrifices mean something or someone desirable is sacrificed?

We could end up really pissing mother nature or the angry volcano god off by offering up that evil bastard. :evilgrin:

Sonia

[sonias]

2. The Texas tectonic plates are shifting as we move left

No reason to be alarmed. This seismic shift is necessary to correct the monumental balance shift to the left we need in Texas. :)

I had no idea seismicity was a word.
earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/texas/seismicity.php

Seems like the sleeper may be on the verge of awakening.

That Durango blog is very interesting. He's funny.

Durango blog
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Have Pointless Texas TV Weather Interruptions Been Canceled?

If I remember correctly I have mentioned my aversion to the way the Texas local TV stations handle weather events during prime time TV.

I have lost count of the number of times, fully aware of a storm danger, turned on the TV to watch a specific show, like LOST, and have it ruined because the Doppler Radar has spotted a small cell that has the potential of rotating and maybe producing heavy rain, hail, wind or even a tornado.

There'd be a loud chiming noise, boink boink boink and then a repeating over and over again crawl across the bottom of the screen telling me that some distant, from me, location was having a storm. When the crawl would let up another sound effect would indicate the same info was now in a graphic at the upper left.

Sonia

[kjackson227]

4. Could we "SHIFT" a little faster then, LOL?!?!?

[sonias]

6. You and me both

I say let's all lean left at once and move there quicker. But we do have to watch for earthquakes. I don't want anyone hurt, unless it's the right wingers getting hit on their asses on their way out of Texas.

:rofl:


Sonia

[sonias]

8. Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes

AAS 6/12/09
Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes

CLEBURNE, Texas — The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last.

There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling — which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas — causing the quakes?

(snip)
At issue is a drilling practice called "fracking," in which water is injected into the ground at high pressure to fracture the layers of shale and release natural gas trapped in the rock.

(snip)

Cliff Frohlich, a scientist at the University of Texas and author of "Texas Earthquakes," said he believes more than 20 Texas earthquakes in the past 100 years are related to drilling for petroleum and gas. But he added: "I would be surprised if a seriously damaging earthquake came out of this."

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

9. Texas does have at least one fault line nt

[sonias]

10. It's not Balcones Fault!

I don't know whose fault it is but Balcones was nowhere near that earthquake in Cleburne. :evilgrin:

Frack how I miss Battlestar Galactica!

Sonia

[Why Syzygy]

11. New Hill Country!

:bounce:
Cleburne is close to Glen Rose where the dino tracks are. I wonder if the quakes will reveal any new archaeological features?