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Frackquake: 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Felt Throughout Kansas
While it is unclear if moments ago the Mississippian Lime Play under south Kansas was the first major shale quake to hit Kansas, or this was simply the first yet to be named shale company going Chapter 11, but moments ago the USGS reported that a 4.8 quake located 30 miles SSW of Wichita as well as a various other smaller quakes in north Oklahoma,shook the two states.
From KWCH:
KWCH has received numerous reports of an earthquake felt throughout the state.
The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed the epicenter of the quake as 8 miles south of Conway Springs, Kansas.
The earthquake was felt near Haysville, Derby, Wichita, and Oklahoma City.
So far, there have been no reports of damage or injuries due to this earthquake.
That said, it will likely take a few more, substantially stronger frackquakes in shale regions, before the popular mood turns against America's shale revolution which has been blamed - in Ohio and elsewhere- on an increased incidence of tremors.
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Well that was certainly objective.
Why not blame the "weathuh?"
Planet X knocking at the backdoor.
Surrender Dorothy!
OH MY GOD! GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bush's fault.
Oh give me a fucking break...
You can barely feel a 4.something earthquake... and besides this is all a bunch of fearmongering BULLSHIATTTTTT...
What a great "logic"!
That it can't become stronger?
Would you talk the same egoistic BS if your house was in such an area? Oh btw, I wish you an earthquake - at least strong enough that you will FEEL what you just wrote.
You're the one who needs to examine his "logic."
Hydraulic fracturing goes on between 6000 and 12000 feet, depending on the basin. The epicenter of this quake was listed at 3.4 miles below the surface. Please explain the mechanism whereby hydraulic fracturing might have caused this shift in the tectonic plates. Given your arrogance, you must possess a vast knowledge of geology; so this should not be difficult for you.
Also, have there ever been any earthquekes in the history of the Earth before we began hydraulic fracturing shale oil deposits? If so, please enlighten us as to how this happened.
The problem is none of the faults in mid-America are mapped and there is a good chance of the New Madrid or releted fault letting go again. There are also faults on the east coast we know very little about. Something will let go sooner or later and the sheep will whine about no warning.
yup we are all screwed, they been saying this since 1 AD right?
Right now best to get in and make money from gold crashing.
THIS GOLD model => http://bitly.com/1rdUK8e told us to get SHORT gold the end of OCT, and that 900 an ounce could be coming on gold soon. OH DEAR!!!
That is where the next market earthquake will occur. :-))))
Obviously, God hates Kansas.
Kansas is not that far away from the New Madrid Fault zone (Missouri). Two New Madrid earthquakes in the early 1800s were of Richter magnitude 8+.
And in those days, when men were men and women were women, an 8 quake would today register as 17.
lol, later to be revised lower by Bureau of Lies and Scams,
Conway Springs Kansas is only 520 miles from the New Madrid seismic zone.
If you were an educated person, perhaps you would read the USGS probabilistic fault map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/conterminous/2014/2014_pga2p...
or
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/conterminous/
but, it's much easier to be ridiculous.
http://www.tsnews.com/csearthquakesontherise.html
In the early 1800s the earthquakes were caused by hundreds of men digging in the ground wth shovels.
When will we ever learn!?
Any quake up to a 9.3 is well worth it for cheap gas. Never live over and energy source or a sinkhole
As long as it is not in your neighborhood, you mean.
Just so long as things remain quiet on the New Madrid fault...
Well it's obviously fracking...
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/johnson1/presentation.html
No researcher??
So then, what happen to Jericho?
let's fuck up the water supply, cause some quakes and not make any money... who's in?
I'm in so long as we get to put American flags on our rigs.
Were you born yesterday? someone always makes money.
oh sorry I forgot about the bankers lending money for negative IRR projects <$75 WTI, I'm sure they protected themselves as did the mgmt. "teams" of the fracking corps
TeslaSolarFracist.com
Everybody wins!!! #Merica
Didn't feel a thing.
Were you taking a shit around this time?
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Good time to be long natural gas.
Especially if this is caused by fracking.
Question to be long how? UNG?
short DGAZ if you can - at least the decay works in your favor, that thing was a piece of shit when I was trying to short nat gas...I won, but lost...
Buy your own gas well.
But don't buy a shale gas well, it is already depleted.
long natgas = a 25 second fart
<-- felt it
<-- didn't
It's just a shale game.
Kansas girls will find even you exotic and alluring. Well worth a visit.
Even if you are white?
I heard Kansas was more - like - gay...
Once the folks around there find out that their homeowners insurance doesn't cover structural damage from earthquakes without an earthquake rider - and my guess is that zero percent have that rider - there's gonna some very pissed people.
Giant sinkhole at Ft Levenworth
Fill it with banksters.
70 dollar oil is a much bigger threat than a no damage earthquake near witchita.
obama's war on decent folk has been devastating in kansas
Imagine if it drops back down to about $35, or perhaps further south this time around to make things more interesting.
I do remember $10 oil in the late 1990's yet.......
And, just for fun, enjoy the projections of this chart from 2005. It was "slightly" off, but got 2009 almost exactly right.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/2005/a/images/spot_futures_ch...
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=374
Nonsense.
Think of sand under your feet where it is wet from the waves and resists your foot and weight.
Then think of how it gives way to your feet higher up where it is dry.
Think of all the subsurface water already present. Then think of the volumes of "scientific opinion" that's merely political whimsy masquerading as laboratory science.
Then think of all the Saudis with Bush dick breath flying planes into buildings while the DOE escorts Amerka to energy independence circa 1975. Then think of Clinton sucking up to piece of shit Saudis for a few trinkets.
Oh the thinks you can think.
Right, and that subsurface water is in the aquifer that is used for crops and drinking water.
And they're going to pump in water with a bunch of toxic chemicals, suck out the oil, and everything will be fine.
I see more delusion and opinion on the "fracking is fine" side and an empty well of common sense thinking.
Fracturing the shale and sandstone that contains the oil will have an effect whether you want it to or not.
It is hard for me to believe that it will have a positive effect on water supplies or stability of the surface.
I still don't know the evidence is that convincing that shale production causes earthquakes, like some say. But I think the bigger issue is just simply a matter of shale production using so much damn fresh water from aquifers when they are being run dry. I'd rather have food and people with access to fresh water than worry about extracting that oil.
Did the earth move for you Bitch?
Frack the fuck outta here!
Kansas trying to literally break away from the sinking ship called the "US of A".
Isn't one of Dick Cheney's secret hideouts somewhere near there?
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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Saturday that, despite initial estimates by the Energy Information Agency (EIA), which put the country’s technically recoverable shale gas resources at 51 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), Romania has no shale gas to speak of.
“It looks like we don’t have shale gas, we fought very hard for something that we do not have,” Ponta told television channel Antena 3. “I cannot tell you more than this but I don’t think we fought for something that existed.”
This comes on the heels of Poland's gas play being down graded by nearly 90%.
But it is true that America has a viable frack gas and oil play. The problem lies in the amount of leveage needed to drill. The worst is the unexpectedly rapid deplition rate of wells expected to produce heavily for years.
Bankruptcy is in the cards for a number of Shale Gas companies. Too much leverage, too fast a decline in well production and Saudi is gunning for US frackers with a price war.
It is obvious that some people still believe that fracking is going to be the great fossil fuel bonanza that makes America the earths greatest energy producers. This will never happen, a careful, unbiased look at the economics of fracking does not look good. Shale is a play that does not have long legs.
you guys do not get it.....
Sure the shale plays die off fast but still do produce something for 30 years after being paid off in two.
It is utilizing the fracking technology into the traditional feilds where the big production is.
If you can up the recoverable oil from traditional plays from 10-15% to 70% as expected.....
How long will the big oil feilds last???????
hint... A long fuking time..............
The big p[icture is the deal, it has nothing to do with shale...........
Jack, do some research on gas lift compression, basically we hook up a TA 195 horse compressor, pipe our suction in down stream of the HP seperator, compress the gas, then pipe back to well head, tie into the production casing to pressure the resovour.
It's a simple, safe, clean way to greatly extend the well life. The compression field is were our industry is at with huge volume of light pressure wells. Gas/Oil wells. It's like blowing into a straw in a glass of chocolate milk, then the liquids and gas come back the well bore, pass threw our facility equipment to break out gas and oil. We even run the compressors of nat gas........
Food for thought is all.
Pulling oil out of the shale won't have any effect on the trillions of tons of earth on top of it, just like Fukushima radiation spewing into the Pacific Ocean won't affect marine life.
It's all "negligible" so "do not worry".
I always knew peak oil was BS and the Saudis playing with the price proves it. Peak consumption maybe but not peak oil by a long shot.
like farting in a cave or pissing in the ocean, ha...
Nobody living out there a Z/H posterererr?
That's Loyd Blankfein doing God's work.
frack you, fracking is causing global warming. hilarious !
Can confirm. Felt slight swaying at 340pm 150 miles away.
This shit happens all the time no fake science necessary unless you're a shameless purveyor of political falsehoods.
ManBearPig shakes Kansas, Oklahoma mildly rattled!
107 earthquakes today
841 earthquakes in the past 7 days
3,232 earthquakes in the past month
38,273 earthquakes in the past year
http://earthquaketrack.com/recent
It has been interesting to follow, over the last few years, the series of tremors that began in northeast Arkansas, moved westward through central Oklahoma, and have now began moving north towards the Wichita, Kansas area. Can anyone explain this progression, and enlighten me on where it may go from here?
Who has stated this was a so called "Fracquake" ... Bullshit, no one has !
Who has stated this was a so called "Fracquake" ... Bullshit, no one has !
its the earth shuddering cause of the poison-injection.
the frack positive science and philosophy expressed in these posts is really head up your a**.
you clowns are really exceptional. lmao
I live about 60 miles north of the epicenter. My whole building shook. It was weird.
Sounds like it occured near the Nemaha ridge/Humboldt fault zone, which runs from Nebraska down into Oklahoma. If so it's probably not fracking related.
This is foolish, because you assume that Kansas has no fault lines running through it. There are a series of faults running to the north east right through this region, Sumner/ Cowley county. It's called the Humboldt fault.
Why would you jump to the conclusion that fracking is the cause?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Humboldt_Fault.svg
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kgs.ku.edu%2FPublic...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000swru#summary