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Earthquakes in Texas

Trinity man

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I don't know about you guys, but I think this is crazy. Water can move, but dirt is not supposed to move. :shock:

Authorities in the Johnson County town of Parker said they felt aftershocks overnight and Monday morning from an earthquake that happened almost a week ago.

The U.S. Geological Survey said a 2.6-magnitude earthquake was reported just before 6 p.m. Sunday and a 2.3 magnitude tremor just after 8 a.m. Monday rattled Cleburne.



The agency's Web site said the quake Monday was centered in a western neighborhood of Cleburne, about a mile west of the town center.

The tremor comes a day after a 2.6-magnitude tremor reported in the Parker community, about 10 miles to the southeast of Cleburne.

A 2.8-magnitude quake hit Cleburne on Tuesday.

Parker is about 50 miles southwest of Dallas.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/47208927.html
 

ecofarmer

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There were 2 in VA a month or so back. I think they were both under 3 on the scale but they were to far away for us to feel.
 

kolanuraven

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We've had them here in GA.

One good one about 5 yrs back knocked stuff from shelves and even put a crack or two in some walls.

Never forget....the planet is ALIVE underneath our feet!! :wink:
 

Cowpuncher

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I wonder if the well fracking they are doing in the Barnett shale has anything to do with this.

Some years ago - in the mid-1960s there was quite a swarm of earthquakes in the Denver area. Some suspected that the cause was the injection of toxic waste from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver into several disposal well around 10,000 feet deep. Arguments and disposal went on for a couple of years and the quakes persisted.

Finally, they shut the disposal wells down and the earthquakes went away and never returned.

Some of the quakes were bordering on severe before they quit. Would be a shame if they had to stop fracking shale beds to recover natural gas because of this.
 
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Anonymous

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Cowpuncher said:
I wonder if the well fracking they are doing in the Barnett shale has anything to do with this.

Some years ago - in the mid-1960s there was quite a swarm of earthquakes in the Denver area. Some suspected that the cause was the injection of toxic waste from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver into several disposal well around 10,000 feet deep. Arguments and disposal went on for a couple of years and the quakes persisted.

Finally, they shut the disposal wells down and the earthquakes went away and never returned.

Some of the quakes were bordering on severe before they quit. Would be a shame if they had to stop fracking shale beds to recover natural gas because of this.

Its not nice to fool with Mother Nature :???: :wink:

Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes

Associated Press Writer Jeff Carlton, Associated Press Writer – Fri Jun 12, 6:22 pm ET
CLEBURNE, Texas – The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last. There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling — which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas — causing the quakes?

"I think John Q. Public thinks there is a correlation with drilling," Mayor Ted Reynolds said. "We haven't had a quake in recorded history, and all the sudden you drill and there are earthquakes."

At issue is a drilling practice called "fracking," in which water is injected into the ground at high pressure to fracture the layers of shale and release natural gas trapped in the rock.

There is no consensus among scientists about whether the practice is contributing to the quakes. But such seismic activity was once rare in Texas and seems to be increasing lately, lending support to the theory that drilling is having a destabilizing effect.
 

allen57

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The ground around me is full of cracks and fractures.


Nothing 20 inches of rain over the next 5 months wouldn't cure. (spread out at regular intervals of course.) :roll:
 

TexasBred

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Trinity..the earth's surface is always moving... we just dont' feel it most of the time. We live only about 50 miles from Cleburne, Tx and have land there with gas production but the "socalled experts" say gas well fracturing has nothing to do with it. The "quakes" are much deeper as most of the gas wells are only between 6000 and 9000 feet deep with horizontal legs on them which are hydraulically fractured to produce more gas. The Barnett Shale area containing the gas is only a few hundred feet thick so the activity is in a very thin layer of the earth.Check the area and there IS a minor fault line passing right thru that area.
 
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