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03-27-2013, 06:36 PM
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OK Earthquake Caused By Oil Company?
Largest Oklahoma Earthquake Linked to Oil Extraction Wastewater
The largest-ever recorded quake in Oklahoma was caused by the injection of wastewater, a byproduct of oil extraction, into the ground, new research confirms. On Nov. 6, 2011, a series of earthquakes, including a 5.6-magnitude temblor, struck the rural town of Prague, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, crumbling homes in the area and damaging a federal highway. The quake could be felt as far away as Milwaukee. "We don't normally feel earthquakes, it was shocking," said study co-author Katie Keranen, a seismologist at Oklahoma University. Now, a new study published March 26 in the journal Geology confirms that wastewater injected into the ground after oil extraction caused the quake. The quake is the largest wastewater-induced earthquake ever recorded. Ever since wastewater injection was linked to a series of small quakes around Denver, Colo., in the 1960s, scientists have known that oil extraction could trigger temblors. When oil is extracted from the ground, lots of water, dubbed "wastewater," comes up as well. So oil companies sometimes pump the water back into the well, where it fills porous spaces within the rocks, Keranen said. "It's almost a lubrication, it can push the fault apart," Keranen told LiveScience. "When you do that you lower the stress that's holding a fault together and you can cause it to slip." But in the past, scientist thought the resulting quakes would be fairly benign: most of these triggered temblors are typically in the 3s and 4s on the Richter scale, Keranen said. In theory, however, these man-made earthquakes could get even bigger — an especially worrisome possibility if they occur near population centers. [Image Gallery: Deadly Earthquakes] "We don't know what the maximum size of earthquakes could be that we could trigger from disposal," Keranen said. Whether or not an area is prone to such tremblers depends on the permeability of the local rock: If water can't seep through the rock easily, meaning it's not very permeable, pressure builds up and makes an earthquake more likely. Earthquake risk also depends on the presence and angle of faults in relation to the water-injection site. Though the process that caused the Oklahoma earthquake didn't involve hydraulic fracturing, fracking often involves injecting spent water into the ground, which carries the same risks. In fracking, water, sand and other substances are injected into a well under high pressure in order to fracture the rock, creating fissures that help natural gas flow out. There hasn't been much oil extraction on the East Coast, but as fracking takes off in areas like Pennsylvania, the risk of big quakes in the region needs to be considered, Keranen said. Follow Tia Ghose on Twitter @Tiaghose. Follow LiveScience @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com. |
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03-28-2013, 01:05 AM
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Fracking is a scary thing and I don't think it needs to be done at all. If you get HBO,and have a chance to see it, watch Gasland. It will blow your mind. It shows how harmful it is and what it can do to homes in the area. One guy turned on his faucet, and when the water started coming out, he took a lighter, and was able to set the water on fire. Spooky, but informative.
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03-28-2013, 07:40 AM
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We are still feeling these tremblors as they call them
Sometimes a popping sound other times its a small shake enough to wake you up The Last one occurred under Midwest City which is a suburb of Okc just last week. Although the oil companies have denied they are doing the hydraulic fracturing in the area this makes much more sense since they are not actually using that process, so plausible deniablity is intact!! Problem is the effect is the same... Another huge issue is the fact that this area is not known to be an earthquake zone most homeowners do not carry that insurance! So of course with the oil companies denying involvement well who gets to pay for this???? Guess...
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03-28-2013, 09:28 AM
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Sg̱aaga g̱uu hla.
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Not coming down one side or the other... but since where I come from has eartquakes on a daily occruence (Yukon/Alasaka)
The quake from Ok was felt in the following countries: Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 AM - Local Time at Epicenter North America:: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:33:07 AM (NDT) - Newfoundland Daylight (St. John's) Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 AM (ADT) - Atlantic Daylight (Halifax) Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 AM (EDT) - Eastern Daylight (New York, Toronto) Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 AM - San Juan Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 AM (CDT) - Central Daylight (Chicago) Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 AM - Jamaica Friday, March 22, 2013 at 11:03:07 PM (MDT) - Mountain Daylight (Calgary, Denver) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 11:03:07 PM - Costa Rica Friday, March 22, 2013 at 10:03:07 PM (PDT) - Pacific Daylight (Vancouver, Los Angeles, Tijuana) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 10:03:07 PM (MST) - Mountain Standard (Phoenix) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 10:03:07 PM - Mexico City Friday, March 22, 2013 at 09:03:07 PM (AKDT) - Alaska Daylight (Anchorage) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 08:03:07 PM (AHDT) - Aleutian Daylight (Adak) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 07:03:07 PM (HST) - Hawaii Standard (Honolulu) South America:: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 AM - Bogota, Quito, Lima Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:33:07 AM - Caracas Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 AM - Manaus Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 AM - La Paz Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 AM - Belem Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 AM - Buenos Aires, Santiago Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 AM - Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 AM - Montevideo Europe:: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 AM - London Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 AM - Lisbon Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 06:03:07 AM - Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 07:03:07 AM - Kiev, Istanbul, Athens Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 09:03:07 AM - Moscow, Saint Petersburg Africa:: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 AM - Casablanca, Abidjan Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 06:03:07 AM - Algiers, Lagos, Kinshasa Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 07:03:07 AM - Cairo, Lusaka, Cape Town Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 08:03:07 AM - Addis Ababa, Nairobi Asia:: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 07:03:07 AM - Anakara Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 07:03:07 AM - Damascus Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 08:03:07 AM - Baghdad, Riyadh Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 09:03:07 AM - Samara Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 09:03:07 AM - Baku, Tbilisi, Muscat Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 09:33:07 AM - Tehran, Mashhad, Kabul Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 10:03:07 AM - Tashkent, Karachi Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 10:33:07 AM - Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 11:03:07 AM - Yekaterinburg Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 11:03:07 AM - Almaty, Dhaka Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 PM - Novosibirsk Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 PM - Bangkok Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:03:07 PM - Jakarta Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 PM - Beijing Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 PM - Manilla, Singapore, Chita Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 PM - Krasnoyarsk Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 PM - Irkutsk Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:03:07 PM - Seoul, Tokyo Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 03:03:07 PM - Guam Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 04:03:07 PM - Vladivostok Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 PM - Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Australasia/Oceania:: Friday, March 22, 2013 at 06:03:07 PM - American Samoa Friday, March 22, 2013 at 07:03:07 PM - Tahiti Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 01:03:07 PM - Perth Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 02:33:07 PM - Darwin Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 03:03:07 PM - Port Moresby Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 03:03:07 PM - Brisbane Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 03:33:07 PM - Adelaide Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 04:03:07 PM - Sydney, Melbourne Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 04:03:07 PM - Solomon Islands, Vanuatu Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 05:03:07 PM - Fiji Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 06:03:07 PM - Auckland, Christchurch The one on the 21st: Magnitude 3.2 - OKLAHOMA CITY URBAN AREA, OKLAHOMA There were 194 earthquakes yesterday around the world... OK has had a number of quakes under the 69 mile radius... not sure why you would say it's not a region to get quakes.. it is a seismic zone. On March 27, Ohio had a quake.. 2.5 on the scale. Magnitude 2.5 - OHIO
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03-28-2013, 10:08 AM
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Please excuse my - explanation of how I see it. First it's frightening! Secondly I got the thought, is oil to Earth like smeer to metal parts for instance on a bike to keep it from getting rusty and to run smooth?
Does Earth needs the oil to keep smooth? To prevent Earth -whatever is inside from rocks from clashing too harsh to provoke earth quakes? Does Earth needs oil to keep alltogether - even the fluid iron center running smoothly? Please do excuse my stupid questions. |
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03-28-2013, 10:43 AM
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I have serious doubts about that article. Maybe some scientists do believe that but, really?? Injecting the wastewater back into the ground cannot cause more lubrication than the oil that it was replacing. And I'm sure the water can't permeate the rock any more that it would, because the rocks underground are not scoured clean from oil which is how they would be more porous.
I'll have to read the article in Geology, because reporters always get facts wrong. I've seen Gaslands, and you need to take it with a grain of salt. While fracking is not good, the area around Pavillion, WY, (on land ceded from the Wind River Rez, but the tribes still control the mineral rights, I do believe) has gas pockets right near the surface....which is why they told that dude not to drill for water at his place and he did anyway. That's why he has gas coming out of his water pipes. The hoopla has caused a big ruckus around Pavillion, but to be fair, the town's water and most people's water wells in the area are fine. Encana does truck in drinking water to about 3-5 people homes, but I do not think that their water is bad because of gas or fracking...all along the Big Wind River where massive irrigation is going on, the water is TERRIBLE and most are not close to gas wells. It's from the irrigating.
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03-28-2013, 12:45 PM
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since they began reinjecting waste water But hey what do we know we are just dumb okies
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03-28-2013, 02:10 PM
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If you do some research into your area, you'll find you've been having quakes that are under 2.5 and not going out more than 60 odd miles from the epicentre... my husband's farts move more ground than a quake that size... what you are experiencing is the media telling you it's getting worse not that it actually is. wyo_rose likes this.
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03-28-2013, 07:48 PM
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Welcome to the real world, where the earth shifts, mountains rise and fall, and even rivers can disappear from cracks in the earth. And guess what?! Its been going on for millions of years.
wyo_rose and Spiritflight like this.
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03-28-2013, 10:18 PM
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Dont worry? It will be ok? Because Canada did not have a problem you wont... LoL Same thing they said to the folks of Picher Oklahoma Dont worry about it it will be ok we will take care of you (Yeah Google that one) Are we talking the same exact methods of extraction? Is the geological formations the exact same as the the area you are describing in Canada? Where is the Water Table and how is that effected by this method? Is this a new method used in Oklahoma? or elsewhere? When was this method first used and what were the results?? For how long have we used these methods?? What is the History of these tremblors in this area and are they following a known faultlines?? One article is all I have read so far... But to summarize based on that as media frenzy I would say that is not the case here its not like they break into the evening program and say hey there was an earthquake... I have lived in an area in this country that is active with earthquakes: California and Washington State so yes I have felt the ground tremble, shake and roll for 20 years... These have felt far different more like a pop By they way we are not talking about Fracturing But pumping wastewater back into the ground after they have extracted the oil out And yes Oklahoma has Oil Fields LoL lots of them
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04-01-2013, 04:10 PM
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Concerning earth quakes - we never get any in the north of Germany and rarely small ones further south. Something strange happened today. My american friends who came to visit me and me went to a fun fair and we sat inside some food booth when all of a sudden I felt a slight shift to the side and back, it felt like the ground was moving. Now, my friend said, it's the vibration from those huge roundabout at the fun fair, I said - well that couldn't be, it was not just a vibration but a shift of the ground and they said they felt it too still thinking it came from those roundabouts, but they don't cause a shift. So I said, if this shift comes back regularly then it maybe those caroussels.
But it did not happen again and we must have sat in that place over an hour. So I wonder what it was? Could it have been an earth quake? It felt like a very gentle move to the right and a couple of seconds later back to the left. |
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04-10-2013, 03:56 PM
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I can't avoid posting "against" you for the first time. After "fracking" the rock, in order to liberate the oil or gas, the condition are not at all the same as before the fracking. When the wastewater is injected, it does not just occupies the spaces liberated by the oil or gas, by also the new space created by the fracking! I'm totally against this activity because nobody on the earth are able to assure me that no damage is done the the ground-water etc. IF the groundwater is affected by all the chemical added to the water, HOW can we clean it up? Is it possible to clean it up ones polluted? The risk is for me far to high! And in addition to this, consider the destruction of the natur. It may takes us generations to restore it!
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