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A friend of mine in Oklahoma sent an email this morning about a good-sized earthquake originating north of Pawnee, Ok. early this morning. She attached a news article that described how it was felt from Nebraska to north Texas and was likely due to oil drilling processes. It was on Yahoo News.
Wait a minute - Yahoo??? About a year ago, we were at a neighborhood gathering and the oil industry came up. I made a comment about the current practices being the cause of earthquakes in the central US. I took a lot of ridicule from the engineers for that, but I've reached a point in my life where I don't give a flying fig if people laugh at my ideas. A while back I read something about the US Geological Survey coming out with evidence that some of the oil industry practices are likely linked to the uptick in earthquakes in Oklahoma. And now - Yahoo News reports this ?!?! That was a pretty quick turn around.
An increase in magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma has been linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. State regulators have asked producers to reduce wastewater disposal volumes in earthquake-prone regions of the state. Some parts of Oklahoma now match northern California for the nation’s most shake-prone, and one Oklahoma region has a 1 in 8 chance of a damaging quake in 2016, with other parts closer to 1 in 20.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/earthquake-shakes-swath-midwest-missouri-oklahoma-121854867.html
Wait a minute - Yahoo??? About a year ago, we were at a neighborhood gathering and the oil industry came up. I made a comment about the current practices being the cause of earthquakes in the central US. I took a lot of ridicule from the engineers for that, but I've reached a point in my life where I don't give a flying fig if people laugh at my ideas. A while back I read something about the US Geological Survey coming out with evidence that some of the oil industry practices are likely linked to the uptick in earthquakes in Oklahoma. And now - Yahoo News reports this ?!?! That was a pretty quick turn around.
An increase in magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma has been linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. State regulators have asked producers to reduce wastewater disposal volumes in earthquake-prone regions of the state. Some parts of Oklahoma now match northern California for the nation’s most shake-prone, and one Oklahoma region has a 1 in 8 chance of a damaging quake in 2016, with other parts closer to 1 in 20.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/earthquake-shakes-swath-midwest-missouri-oklahoma-121854867.html
