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Completely OT: Had a 5.8 earthquake hit here 5 hours ago

Wyokie

Wyokie

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Hell of a nice way to wake up!!!!!

So far it ties the state record for strongest earthquake ever. A 5.8 hit November 6, 2011. It hit the state right after a nationally televised OSU game ended.
 
Take care of yourself out there man. I've been jolted by some of those bad boys myself. You just feel totally helpless and kind of in aw of nature. They'll spook the shit out of some folks though. I've seen people be up and ready to move when they feel the force.
 
Earthquakes are the worse since you can't see them coming unlike a tornado, a volcano, a hurricane or a typical Wyoming blizzard.
 
It's weird seeing rather major earthquakes in a place like Oklahoma. Glad you're alright. Any damage in your surroundings? I imagine buildings there aren't exactly built to deal with quakes at that level!
 
Asmodeanreborn said:
It's weird seeing rather major earthquakes in a place like Oklahoma. Glad you're alright. Any damage in your surroundings? I imagine buildings there aren't exactly built to deal with quakes at that level!
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My building is fine. Heard that places as far north as Nebraska felt it and as far south as Texas felt it as well.
 
Coeur d' Alene said:
Wyokie said:
Safe bet it's from all the fraking drilling going on here.
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Is that a joke or are you just looking ahead to what will be said
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This is actually not a far-fetched thing. We're pumping down a crapton of lubricants in super-old faults that have been at an equilibrium (aka inactive) for essentially forever. It's obviously difficult to figure out exactly how far-reaching it can be considering the scale of things.

Oklahoma shouldn't be seeing as many earthquakes as it suddenly is. It's lined up very well with the increase in fracking, but it's also important to note that until we have concrete evidence, correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
 
Asmodeanreborn said:
Coeur d' Alene said:
Wyokie said:
Safe bet it's from all the fraking drilling going on here.
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Is that a joke or are you just looking ahead to what will be said
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This is actually not a far-fetched thing. We're pumping down a crapton of lubricants in super-old faults that have been at an equilibrium (aka inactive) for essentially forever. It's obviously difficult to figure out exactly how far-reaching it can be considering the scale of things.

Oklahoma shouldn't be seeing as many earthquakes as it suddenly is. It's lined up very well with the increase in fracking, but it's also important to note that until we have concrete evidence, correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
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What he said. Fracking is the main reason Oklahoma gets more earthquakes per year than California normally gets. Think about that. California has the San Andreas Fault that could one day split that state into two separate parts!!!
 
It's already rather telling when the industry's been spending serious money in Oklahoma and Texas to prevent research on these earthquakes. It's not completely unlike what Big Tobacco did when the first researchers started talking about potential links between smoking and lung cancer.

Once again, this does not mean there's a proven relationship, but they sure don't want people to find out just in case there is.
 
Asmodeanreborn said:
It's already rather telling when the industry's been spending serious money in Oklahoma and Texas to prevent research on these earthquakes. It's not completely unlike what Big Tobacco did when the first researchers started talking about potential links between smoking and lung cancer.

Once again, this does not mean there's a proven relationship, but they sure don't want people to find out just in case there is.
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It would be worse then big tobacco if true. Killing generations of humans is one thing (still people had to know that tobacco wasn't the greatest thing for their bodies). When you destroy the planet that we live on beyond possible repair in areas it's dangerous to us as species for generations upon generations. There's plenty of instances of humans doing this due to money well before enough of the population jumps in to know this is a bad idea. LA could have had an actual river run though it, now its gone for good (a waste dump really) because of shitty human planning most likely for cash or lack of knowledge for the environment (both?). Having another river (that would probably get polluted beyond recognition out there ahahah) could've been a real, real nice thing in a water deprived state such as California. We need to be careful with these environmental things. Too much damage has already been done everywhere you turn.
 
I wouldn't say it is "fracking" that is causing the flux in earthquakes. The fracking process combined with horizontal drilling allows a single well to produce from more of the formation. This also increases the amount of produced water that is lifted from the formation by either natural bore pressure of the well or some means of artificial lift. With a single non conventional well producing drastically more water than a conventional well you see a need to dispose of more water. With more water comes more disposal wells.

I feel it comes down to finding a better method for handling the produced water. Why not find a way to turn the water into a profitable resource? I mean if Wichita Falls, Tx can turn their waste water into drinking water why can't we find a way to use this water?
 
Wyokie said:
Hell of a nice way to wake up!!!!!

So far it ties the state record for strongest earthquake ever. A 5.8 hit November 6, 2011. It hit the state right after a nationally televised OSU game ended.
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Felt it pretty good here in west Kansas.
 
No quakes here in Alaska, but they have been happening this week elsewhere in AK, I remember one in Anchorage back in 2002, it knocked me off a flight of steps and was a 6.2 on richter i'll never forget it, don't really remember many in Wyo, except on by Jackson, that shook our chandiler in Buffalo one evening...GO POKES
 
Wyokie said:
Asmodeanreborn said:
Coeur d' Alene said:
Wyokie said:
Safe bet it's from all the fraking drilling going on here.
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Is that a joke or are you just looking ahead to what will be said
Click to expand...

This is actually not a far-fetched thing. We're pumping down a crapton of lubricants in super-old faults that have been at an equilibrium (aka inactive) for essentially forever. It's obviously difficult to figure out exactly how far-reaching it can be considering the scale of things.

Oklahoma shouldn't be seeing as many earthquakes as it suddenly is. It's lined up very well with the increase in fracking, but it's also important to note that until we have concrete evidence, correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
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What he said. Fracking is the main reason Oklahoma gets more earthquakes per year than California normally gets. Think about that. California has the San Andreas Fault that could one day split that state into two separate parts!!!
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California is already split into two parts, it's just that those two parts are locked up by frictional forces 99.99999% of the time. If you are thinking there will some day be an "LA Island" out in the Pacific, its unlikely to occur while humans roam this planet.

It's nice to see the government in Oklahoma is finally listening to the scientists that have been warning them of the dangers of injecting all that wastewater into the ground recently. Looks like the OCC is shutting down all disposal wells within a wide radius around today's quakes. Sure, it's probably a couple months late to really do anything, but maybe, just maybe, it'll help prevent further big quakes in this area.
 
spindoctor02 said:
It's nice to see the government in Oklahoma is finally listening to the scientists that have been warning them of the dangers of injecting all that wastewater into the ground recently. Looks like the OCC is shutting down all disposal wells within a wide radius around today's quakes. Sure, it's probably a couple months late to really do anything, but maybe, just maybe, it'll help prevent further big quakes in this area.
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Where did you hear about the Oklahoma state govt. morons finally listening to the scientists about this?! They shoulda stopped fracking right after the last big earthquake in Nov. 2011 but didn't.

This is the same state govt. that gave huge tax breaks to energy companies to work here and that has backfired on the govt. Those tax breaks, had they not happened, coulda given state teachers, you know....grade school teachers, a much needed payraise. But now, the state can't do that due to the fact the state is broke!!!! Almost a billion in the hole!!!!
 
Wyokie said:
Hell of a nice way to wake up!!!!!

So far it ties the state record for strongest earthquake ever. A 5.8 hit November 6, 2011. It hit the state right after a nationally televised OSU game ended.
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Bragger.
One of my cousins felt it too. He's in law school at OU.
 
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