Is fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma? searching the web gives conflicted results. It seems a lot of the locals are blaming "waste-water" and directly saying fracking is not the culprit
Is fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma? searching the web gives conflicted results...
Ian Bell
Other urls found in this thread:
earthquake.usgs.gov
earthquaketrack.com
earthquakes.ok.gov
google.com
bloomberg.com
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
twitter.com
Elijah Davis
bump
John Lopez
earthquake.usgs.gov
As part of the fracking process, waste water is created which needs to be disposed of in separate deep wells. It is these deep wells that are correlated (likely causal) with the earthquakes.
However, these earthquakes are large enough to be felt but very rarely cause damage. So it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Adam Rivera
Yea. It's fracking retarded
Nathaniel Moore
Yes, they basically said that very thing and started banning fracking there.
earthquaketrack.com
Oklahoma, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater)
15 earthquakes today
36 earthquakes in the past 7 days
114 earthquakes in the past month
2,506 earthquakes in the past year
Pic from:
earthquakes.ok.gov
>However, these earthquakes are large enough to be felt but very rarely cause damage. So it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Carter Roberts
The earthquakes are a national security threat: bloomberg.com
We need to send in seal team six to kill those fault lines and show them whose boss.
Joseph Hernandez
The USGS says that:
>Most of these earthquakes are in the magnitude 3–4 range, large enough to have been felt by many people, yet small enough to rarely cause damage.
Do you think a google image search with images from "offthegridnews.com" or "breitbart.com" is a more reputable source?
Jack Carter
Matthew Green
>wikipedia
wikipedia a shit, kid
Cameron Peterson
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Dylan Baker
>All it takes is one, you know.
Um, no? One minor damage event occurring very rarely doesn't change the calculus. Let's quote your own link:
>As a result of the magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 5, 2011, an estimated one million dollars in damage occurred in and around the Prague area.[56] So far, there has not been a significant amount of damage reported from other earthquakes, but in April 2014, the United States Geological Survey released an analysis indicating that "the likelihood of future, damaging earthquakes [in central and north-central Oklahoma] has increased as a result of the increased number of small and moderate shocks."[7]
So according to your own link, that's one million dollars in earthquake damages over 2009-2016. That's 7 years or $142,000 in the entire state, per year.
As I said in my first post, that is not a big deal.
Christopher Campbell
Ill just leave this here
Ethan Lee
>that is not a big deal.
That's the problem. It IS a big deal.
Ryan Murphy
>that is not a big deal.
GB2/bed/Arbuckle
Benjamin Rogers
that's exactly the point
only a moron now looks at wikipedia as an uncited source and slanders it for it
Austin Jones
>wikipedia article citations are blogger pages that circle jerk each other
Jack Fisher
example?
Brandon Cox
>en.wikipedia.org
no that is exactly the point
only a moron looks at a wikipedia article and assumes it is true without checking the reference. and anyone who sites the wiki article as opposed to the legitimate one is not checking shit.
Jacob Gomez
then you can point out which citations are false
Colton Barnes
It was a common thing. So common that I stopped looking at wikipedia for a few years now.
Nolan Walker
Do we just have some very different measure of what is a big deal?
I mean, the reason we are worried about whether fracking causes earthquakes is because we want to know whether it is a wise policy to ban fracking and thus stop the earthquakes.
But banning a billion dollar industry over $142,000 in annual earthquake damages seems crazy to me.
Angel Flores
kek i loved how this thread has devolved.
Wiki is a wonderful place to get a start on an idea, but should never be used as a source let alone a sincere source of information. Some is bullshit, some is not, but it is up to you to do the due diligence and figure it out. Wiki is useless but those who collect the information via various sources is.
Jaxon Harris
typical
Isaac Foster
>earthquakes are not a big deal
Jackson Walker
>Is fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?
No, that is stupid. Humans can't start earth quakes without atom bombs.
FULL REATARD
Landon Miller
A magnitude, say, 8 earthquake that kills people and destroys much property is a very big deal.
However, fracking is not correlated with such earthquakes. They are correlated with one magnitude 5.6 earthquake about once a decade that kills no one and causes annual property damages of $142,000.
Even though they are both part of the set "earthquake", the latter is not a big deal.
Luke Lopez
>jews putting dollar amounts on human suffering: example post
Juan Williams
>million dollars worth of shit fallen off shelves or cracks in buildings is human suffering
?
Robert Taylor
>Advanced Cherry Picking: example post
James Edwards
yes.
that being said, i dont expect anything to happen besides a couple of small earthquakes.
Michael Anderson
>they conveniently leave out the rest of the disposal wells now since it doesn't correlate with their agenda
This is what it looked like back in April of this year.