Texas Earthquakes

Will, I hear about them every morning, but LC sleeps like a rock my friend! lol

And I'm surprised this thread doesn't have 500 + replies :yes:
 
Ha, don’t know what to say. Haven’t heard of the quakes before now but I can tell you I know the feeling having long ago lived in Japan where we had the shakes very often in the late 50’s.
Don’t the injections prevrnt them, or meant to prevent them?
 
We had a very stable set up in OK. We had siesmic activity but it was very minimal. They started fracking and injecting waste water into the ground....we started getting noticeable earthquakes. They stopped those activities and the noticeable earthquakes stopped.
 
Alot of that up here in NE Texas and NW La also................see those water lines laid everywhere...........people are making decent money off of selling these drillers water from their ponds, etc.
 
OUBubba said:
They started fracking and injecting waste water into the ground.
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They don’t inject waste water into the ground, there are all types of rules handling waste water. Now the water they are injecting does have chemicals they added. So what is causing the earth quakes, to my best guess would be the water lowering the surface tension between formations causing slippage.
 
humahuma said:
They don’t inject waste water into the ground, there are all types of rules handling waste water. Now the water they are injecting does have chemicals they added. So what is causing the earth quakes, to my best guess would be the water lowering the surface tension between formations causing slippage.
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Waste water is the term that they utilize. I am not a field expert. :)
 
Slept through an earthquake in high school when I lived in West Texas. That has been happening for a long time.
 
nashhorn said:
Don’t the injections prevrnt them, or meant to prevent them?
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One program a few years back hypothesized that it helps lubricate the plates that, when shifting, cause what we recognize as 'earthquakes.'

Sounds plausible enough to me and it WAS the premise of a Bond movie close to 40 years ago...but it is a small price to pay for DOMESTIC oil production.
 
University of Texas professors have studied earthquakes along the Rockies and into Texas for decades. There is no statistical connection between earthquakes and fracking or other drilling practices. This is all a myth created by anti oil and gas activists to scare people.
 
Monahorns said:
University of Texas professors have studied earthquakes along the Rockies and into Texas for decades. There is no statistical connection between earthquakes and fracking or other drilling practices. This is all a myth created by anti oil and gas activists to scare people.
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Bullstitt!
 
Monahorns said:
University of Texas professors have studied earthquakes along the Rockies and into Texas for decades. There is no statistical connection between earthquakes and fracking or other drilling practices. This is all a myth created by anti oil and gas activists to scare people.
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Correct - nothing to do with fracking, but instead re-injection of the wastewater at a different site.
 
Monahorns said:
They studied that too. Had no effect. They are still monitoring, so evidence is still being investigated. So far, no dice.
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It stopped in Oklahoma when they stopped injecting the waste water. So it seems to be related north of the red river.
 
horninchicago said:
You have been sleeping through earthquakes in high school for a long time?

:fiestanana:
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I've slept through them all but two. They were minor and more of a "did you feel that?" kind of thing. The epicenters in the OK quakes were mostly in the middle of the state.
 
Monahorns said:
They studied that too. Had no effect. They are still monitoring, so evidence is still being investigated. So far, no dice.
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Is this the same kind of "investigation" that determined that cigarettes had no causal effect to cancer?
 
OUBubba said:
I've slept through them all but two. They were minor and more of a "did you feel that?" kind of thing. The epicenters in the OK quakes were mostly in the middle of the state.
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Centered right around Norman, I would imagine. I wonder what kind of force exists in Norman that may have precipitated them... Hmmmmm.
 
The Norman force must be even stronger than I thought. It creates earthquakes to the north AND keeps Texas from sliding into the Gulf of Mexico.
 
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