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Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma
New submitter bobbied (2522392) writes "A rare warning has been issued by the US Geological survey today, warning of an increased risk of a damaging earthquake (magnitude 5.0 or greater) in central Oklahoma. There have been more earthquakes in Oklahoma (per mile) than California this year, prompting the USGS to issue their warning today (May 5, 2014).
This warning is the first such warning to be issued for a state east of the Rockies."
This warning is the first such warning to be issued for a state east of the Rockies."
Is it too late to take out an insurance policy on some Oklahoma property?
Finding out when (ie soon) and where an earthquake will occur is still almost pure luck. Of course, when the frequency of EQ is high, the probability that a bigger one happens is higher. But that almost the best we can predict. After the Tohoku EQ in Japan in 2011, amazing predictions were made by "specialists": a "big one" to occur in Tokyo within a couple of days, the Fuji mt to erupt soon, etc... nothing happened. (the cumulative probabilities of a big one in Tokyo was more than 90% at the time!).
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
'Nuff said.
is anyone suprised that making the bedrock akin to swiss cheese causes earthquakes? i hearby call DUH on this.
This area was tested for nuclear waste disposal, Yucca Mountain won out.
This area is a basalt range, and no problem for future earthquakes (claimed), yes we have Mt.s St. Helen but that's the edge of two plates.
Politics and other things I'm not privy to moved the burial site away, but if Oklahoma is having earthquake warnings, not sure what to say actually.
for botching that execution ;->
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these wells pump poisons into a geological formation that is moving around? Isn't it at least possible that these poisons can move along these "rock cracks", and, eventually get into our aquifers?
The USA is only 4X older than me...perspective
This would be a test of abiogenic oil hypothesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
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Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
When I read the originally released "list of fracking chemicals" I concluded that "fracking fluid" was a code word for "refinery waste". I see, sadly, that I was correct.
Out here in California you can get cited as if you'd spilled transmission fluid for a vegetable oil spill in your home biodiesel facility. And meanwhile, states are pumping refinery byproducts into the ground deliberately and getting paid for it.
It's all gone mad.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The US capitol is very prone to earthquake damage. And it turns out that is is surrounded by shale formations where fracking is or could occur. The Marcellus Shale formation to the North and now "The Taylorsville basin runs through some of Virginia and across the Potomac River to cover much of Charles County, some of Prince George’s and up to Annapolis. That basin was assessed and found to contain an estimated 1,064 billion cubic feet of natural gas" to the South surround it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/... The last earthquake did serious damage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2....
This graph from the article shows an exponential growth in small earthquakes in the past few years. How else do you go from under 10/year to 150/year, in the span of a decade?
Was the Perfection Valley in Oklahoma, by any change?
And now earthquakes. OK just can't catch a break.
I'm a card carrying NRA member, republican, and in general a dittohead, but cut the shit. Fracking most certainly allows latent stress in rock formations to relax, which is what we call an "earthquake". If it were a big deal, insurance wouldn't let us frack in SoCal. However, it's really clear that putting microfractures into the rock will let it move.
Similarly, wastewater injection is also going to do something similar by lubricating the rock along existing microfractures. This isn't a bad thing, long-term, as the stress is released and the bedrock ends up more seismically stable in the long run.
This is just the beginning of the Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption. The Obama administration knows about it and refuses to tell the people the truth. The death toll from this will be over half the population of the US and will be devistating the world over. This is truely the apocalypse!
That is all.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
...people forget we deal with tornadoes every year, and earthquake is a walk in the park.
There are 2 groups of people you can make fun of on the Internet without fear of attack. The illiterate, and the Amish.
Well that sucks....
More earthquakes in Oklahoma. Thanks Obama!
Proverbs 21:19
Even earthquakes.
Fracking and marijuana have a lot in common; fracking advocates claim it's safe when all geological surveys say it isn't, marijuana advocates say it's safe when all peer reviewed science says it isn't.
But there's so much money involved in both that we're being inundated with fracking and drugs regardless of how bad it is for us. Gotta make that profit, at any cost to the people.
GOD. IS. PISSED.
... for the oklahomans' wicked christian lifestyle.
...and no it's not fracking. The faults already existed, the only thing that fracking may have done is lubricate those faults, they still would've happened eventually.
Unaided those earthquakes would have happened anyway, on the normal geologic timescale of some time in the next thousand years.
But I agree with you, it's not fracking, it's wastewater disposal. We've known since the 50's that you don't pump water into areas that are not stable. What's going to happen is the state is going to do very little until there's an earthquake that does major damage. Then the Feds are going to get involved and things will finally get done.
Also, at some point, some random idiot with a following will blame the gays, Jews, Muslims, communists, blacks, or generic sinners for this. The only group that will not be blamed will be the people who pumped water at high speeds into an unstable area.
Jesus! I bet it's going to be like a F10 Fu-Richta scale.
First off, NPR edited and reported on what the USGS published. That's called news, NPR is not the source, the USGS is. If your world renowned PhD is laughing at the USGS, I think he needs to publish a paper explaining why.
Second, this is Slashdot, not a peer reviewed scientific journal. Posting links is fine as long as they are backed by real research. Again, I think the USGS is, by far, the best source for this. That's what they do, their agenda is to answer questions, not to make money for the local energy concern.
Given the gas and oil industry's scientific reputation, anything they publish should be suspect. (Remember how safe leaded gas was?)
A 7.9 aftershock isn't as headline grabbing as a 9.0, but you go experience a 7.9 and tell me that isn't big.
You tell people in Haiti that 7.0 wasn't big.
According to the late (I presume) Dean of Astrology at Oxford Univrsity (UK), Margaret Hone, no gravitational or magnetic waves are involved. An undiscovered astrological wave is the cause, according to her textbook.
Yes, I am serious. Her textbook was published in 1955 IIRC. (I have it somewhere, but am too lazy to look for it.)
Earthquakes are in dispute so they can't exist.
Especially when I can walk two doors down and get it from a world renowned geological hydrology PhD. Pretty sure he'd laugh at those references.
After he's finished laughing at the source, is that when he explains to you that the conclusions are all correct?
You realize that oil drilling only goes about 2.2 km deep, while most earth quakes are ten km deep?
1 in the past 30 days has been 10 km or more deep. The vast majority are between 2 and 5.
...I wouldn't have said anything to begin with if the original premise was correct. But if you want to believe everything your government tells you, be my guest.
There are 2 groups of people you can make fun of on the Internet without fear of attack. The illiterate, and the Amish.
Why treat the waste when you can just bury it?
Nothing could go wrong when pumping large amounts of solvents into the ground at high pressure!
We should dump our nuclear waste in the same way! It'll be great!
Wait a second...
you seem well informed. so, is it true they operate at near zero sum in terms of energy and value produced versus consumed and cost getting it. or negative sum in some cases once the oil tails off, made up for by some subsidy or taxpayer writeoff of development? genuine question.
if that's the case it's a terrible business model for the consumer never mind the mini quake aspect.
Only a complete idiot ignores independent scientists.