Earthquake?

[TheDan]

Y'all feel that?

 

[SARGE67]

I hear it's been happening frequently in west Texas. Fracking getting blame

 

[Vaquero]

Nope.
Been standing here for at least an hour.

 

[Otto_Mation]

Nope.
Been standing here for at least an hour.

My son in law is in Midland and he didn't feel it either. My wife and I were living in Midland when the 5.4 earthquake happened in Dec 2022 and we definitely felt that one.

 

[pronstar]

My buddy lives in Irving. He says when they demolished the old Cowboys stadium, they experienced quite a few small earthquakes afterward, with some blaming to the mass of material that was being moved. Others blamed fracking.

Texas seismologists investigate quakes near old Cowboys stadium

By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - Seismologists installed a new earthquake-monitoring device in the Dallas suburb of Irving this week after a series of minor temblors rocked an area near the site of the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium. Irving was hit by a magnitude 3.5 quake, the U.S...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Tnhawk]

My buddy lives in Irving. He says when they demolished the old Cowboys stadium, they experienced quite a few small earthquakes afterward, with some blaming to the mass of material that was being moved. Others blamed fracking.

Texas seismologists investigate quakes near old Cowboys stadium

By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - Seismologists installed a new earthquake-monitoring device in the Dallas suburb of Irving this week after a series of minor temblors rocked an area near the site of the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium. Irving was hit by a magnitude 3.5 quake, the U.S...

www.yahoo.com

I'm sure some demorats blamed Trump and/or fossil fuels.

 

[Otto_Mation]

My buddy lives in Irving. He says when they demolished the old Cowboys stadium, they experienced quite a few small earthquakes afterward, with some blaming to the mass of material that was being moved. Others blamed fracking.

Texas seismologists investigate quakes near old Cowboys stadium

By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - Seismologists installed a new earthquake-monitoring device in the Dallas suburb of Irving this week after a series of minor temblors rocked an area near the site of the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium. Irving was hit by a magnitude 3.5 quake, the U.S...

www.yahoo.com

Lot's of people blame fracking but in West Texas it is primarily blamed on waste water injection, which is saltwater that has been separated from the hydrocarbons and injected into disposal wells. There is some merit to that. My company processes seismic data and we have been tasked with improving 3D seismic imaging to enable our clients to see basement faults that extend into the sedimentary section that are believed to be stimulated by injection of the saltwater into disposal wells. Very few earthquakes are caused by fracking. These earthquakes are going to happen eventually, might as well happen now before stresses build and cause earthquakes of greater magnitude.

ETA: The current trend is to drill and frack targets that do not contain large amounts of water so that disposal wells aren't needed.

 

[Tnhawk]

Earthquakes have occurred recently as well in the past in Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan where no fracking has ever taken place.

 

[pronstar]

Earthquakes have occurred recently as well in the past in Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan where no fracking has ever taken place.

Since coastal California has frequent quakes, and no Republicans in sight…I’m just gonna go ahead and blame Democrats

 

[Tnhawk]

Since coastal California has frequent quakes, and no Republicans in sight…I’m just gonna go ahead and blame Democrats

You'll never see a democrat accept responsibility for anything.

 

[pronstar]

You'll never see a democrat accept responsibility for anything.

CA Dems love blaming Republicans, who are literally nowhere to be found

 

[DoubleDuty]

I believe the Vacuum between their ears is responsible for earthquakes

 

[Tnhawk]

CA Dems love blaming Republicans, who are literally nowhere to be found

They got the government they deserve.

 

[sparkyv]

...and don't forget global warming.

I'm sure some demorats blamed Trump and/or fossil fuels.

 

[Dermako]

Global warming is to blame.
Greta sent a memo.