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4.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Oklahoma
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:34 am
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Reported near Cherokee, OK ~160 miles north of Oklahoma City.
Damn, that's pretty close to LA.
Reported near Cherokee, OK ~160 miles north of Oklahoma City.
Damn, that's pretty close to LA.
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Quick facts:
Earthquake felt in Cherokee, Okla. on Thursday morning USGS says the preliminary magnitude is a 4.7
Another earthquake was reported around 3:45 as a magnitude 3.1
A third was reported at 6:02 a.m. with a magnitude 3.7
Two were reported in Crescent, a 3.4 at 7:25 and a 4.0 at 8:24.
This post was edited on 11/19/15 at 9:36 am
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Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:35 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Fracking.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:36 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I felt one in Oklahoma last year while duck hunting, probably wouldn't have noticed it if not laying on the ground in blind. When I asked they said it's pretty common there.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:42 am to TigerFanInSouthland
As a doctor of both geophysics and petroleum engineering, fracking is the only logical cause
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:45 am to TigerFanInSouthland
The fracking itself isn't necessarily causing earthquakes. The fluids that are used in fracking (mainly the SW waste that comes back up the well) is injected into disposal wells thousands of feet deep encased in concrete (cheap and relatively safe).
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“The model I use is called the air hockey table model,” says Cliff Frohlich, a research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin. “Suppose you tilt an air hockey table. If there’s no air on, the puck just sits there. Gravity wants it to move but it doesn’t move because of friction [with the table surface]. But if you turn the air on, the puck slips. Faults are the same. If you pump water in a fault, the fault can slip, causing an earthquake."
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:45 am to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:You know Louisiana is right on a fault line, right?
Damn, that's pretty close to LA.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:46 am to TigerFanInSouthland
What the frack?!
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:46 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Learn to swim
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:54 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Been threw there... not much around
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:55 am to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
... Cherokee, OK ...Damn, that's pretty close to LA.
say what?
Posted on 11/19/15 at 10:10 am to TigerFanInSouthland
That thing woke me up in S. Central Kansas. Felt some in the past, but that was by far the strongest.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 12:22 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
the preliminary magnitude is a 4.7
So roughly 90,000 times less force than a real deal 7.7 earthquake that would actually frick shite up. Got it.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 12:39 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
It scared the shite out of me this morning. I thought someone was in my house. Dogs went nuts. My wife just sat up and looked at me, then went back to sleep. Not a word from her...
I've felt plenty of the smaller ones. This one was the strongest and longest one that I've felt so far. They're pretty frequent. I just hope that our insurance rates don't go through the roof. In Kansas this week... Tornados, blizzard, baseball sized hail, sunshine and an earthquake. What a freakin' week.
I've felt plenty of the smaller ones. This one was the strongest and longest one that I've felt so far. They're pretty frequent. I just hope that our insurance rates don't go through the roof. In Kansas this week... Tornados, blizzard, baseball sized hail, sunshine and an earthquake. What a freakin' week.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 1:03 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
We get tons of earthquakes up here now. I didn't feel this one, but I was asleep
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:13 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Climate Change
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