Seismological Society of America Claims Fracking Reactivated Ohio Fault

eldavojohn writes There have been suspicions that fracking has caused minor earthquakes in Ohio but last year seismic data recorded by the Earthscope Transportable Array was analyzed by the Seismological Society of America using template matching and has resulted in a new publication and press release making the statement that Hilcorp Energy's fracking in Poland Township in March of 2014 "did not create a new fault, rather it activated one that we didn't know about prior to the seismic activity." The earthquakes occurred in the Precambrian basement and lead the researchers to posit that further unknown faults may be activated by fracking. The press release ends with urging for "close cooperation among government, industry and the scientific community as hydraulic fracturing operations expand in areas where there's the potential for unknown pre-existing faults."

Comments

Re:Good luck with that.

[MightyMartian]

Don't be absurd. The universe is designed so that mankind, being God's chosen creatures, can do whatever the fuck they want without any risk whatsoever. Remember, Jesus loves profit, hates the environment, and wants us to cause fracking-related earthquakes. Jesus also wants us to up the amount of CO2 int he atmosphere, because it doesn't do anything at all to climate, and even if it did, above all else, Jesus loves profit.

God bless America, the Koch Brothers and the Wall Street Journal. And fuck everyone else.

Re:Known costs vs. unknown costs

[HornWumpus]

Fracking is almost 100 years old. Saying it's an unknown is a lie.

Re:Scientists are government officials too

[mi]

Extremes that would have happened about 2% of the time in the 30 years prior to the 80's were happening about 6% of the time in the 30 years prior to 2010.

No reliable records exist beyond 1-2 centuries back. Today's data — with climate science being run by government officials and scientists alike with an enormous conflict of interest — can not be trusted either. It can be manipulated too easily ("hide the decline") and even raw unaltered data would depend greatly on where the sensors are placed. Temperature inside a city park can differ from the surrounding streets by as much as 5C, for example!

No, we do not have irrefutable scientific evidence of anthropogenic global warming — what we are told is to act "just in case" it is true.

cohesive if you look at the temperature trend in the context of radiative physics

"Cohesive", huh? It is fairly simple to come up with a theory explaining the past. The global warming alarmists, however, are yet to come up with a theory predicting the future.

But I like your style — when it is cold in North America, well, that's a fluke. But when it is hot in Australia — that's evidence of Global Warming.

what we know about the atmospheric CO2 trend

What do we know about it? CO2 concentration helps plants grow — and is thus a self-regulating problem. What else do we know?