What Caused the Oklahoma Earthquakes

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Source: Gather News

What could have caused the Oklahoma earthquakes that occurred on Saturday? Both tremors were centered just east of Oklahoma City. The second quake, late Saturday night around 11 p.m., lasted more than a minute and could be felt as far north as Kansas City, Missouri, and as far south as Dallas, Texas.

According to the US Geological Survey, more than one earthquake shook the region. The first one was a magnitude of 4.7. A series of smaller ones clocked in around the 3.0 range, and the last one rattled windows at 5.6 on the Richter scale. Normally, this region of the South and Midwest is relatively quiet in terms of earthquakes. But in recent years, there have been more and more. Why? Is it nature at work? Or is it something else?

The Oklahoma Geological Survey by Austin Holland was published recently, and it states clearly that fracking is one of the causes for earthquakes. When you inject the earth with saltwater to break up the shale beneath the earth, you're creating an instability in the crust that results in sudden and sometimes extreme movement. In other words, the earth sinks a little where the fracking occurs. Doesn't anyone see anything wrong with this? Oil companies are admitting they're damaging the earth, damaging homes, infrastructure, and possibly risking lives...all for the sake of natural gas and oil.

Just to illustrate the point, between 1977 and 2008, there were only 28 earthquakes in Oklahoma: less than 1 per year. Between 2009 and 2010, the state experienced 134 earthquakes: an average of 95 quakes per year. That's a huge difference. And it simply can not be attributed to a fault line or natural causes. Even the British energy company, Cuadrilla Resources, admits that fracking is the most likely cause of increased incidents of earthquakes in the area.


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[truedelphi]

1. These micro bursts occur in a different area of the

earth than the deep seated earthquakes that are higher on the Richter scale.

Theblame truly an be laid at the feet of the companies that are fracking.

But like everything else in our crazy, embrace anything for a quick buck society - so what?

We apparently need wars, earthquakes, autism, deaths from Big Pharma's medicines as these all help the Big Fortune Five Hundred pay their executives four hundred times more than the person who is actually doing good things with their lives. (Running a day care center, teaching school, being a veterinarian or doctor, or a fire fighter, police official, etc.)

So what if fracking ruins the health of people in the area where fracking happens, destroys houses, causes earthquakes, destroys the aquifers, if it offers up a profit?

[formercia]

2. The Fracking Fluid acts as a lubricant

Greasing the skids, so to speak.

[a la izquierda]

3. The overnight quake...

woke my husband out of a deep sleep. The one late last night felt as though it was about to knock the house off the foundation.

And this from a guy who lived in California.

[Juneboarder]

4. Tornados, Ice and now earthquakes

Why in the heck would you want to live in Oklahoma??

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Not only that, it's hot enough in the summer to burn your face off!

[Bozita]

6. It's God's way of telling Senator Inhofe to go frack himself

[AuntPatsy]

7. It doesn't matter at this point there is no stopping them, greed and power plays

Have over taken our common sense

[otohara]

8. Fracking

time for an OK moratorium

[Zorra]

9. Why, Gawwwd is punishing Oklahoma for Teh Gays, of course.

That's totally obvious.
;-)

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

10. The Fracking is beginning to piss off the Ancient Evils buried below.

I think they are doing it on purpose in hopes that the ancient evil there happens to be Ronald Reagan and that he will return to the surface.