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As it has been blaring across world news stations lately, Oklahoma has experienced more than it's usual share of earthquakes lately..A 4.2 was recorded in the last week just North and East of OKC, OK..I felt it myself and I live over 25 miles from the recent one..they all seem to be centered around an area where there is heavy use of fracking...I was skeptical at first as to the cause or causes of the earthquake swarms, but I'm beginning to think there is a correlation between fracking and earthquakes...

I can imagine if fracking and damaging earthquakes are somehow proven to be linked, then there will be $billions$ of dollars spent on claims from damaged homeowners and businesses....And then you WILL SEE oil and natural gas prices explode...jury is still out
 
Buster said:
As it has been blaring across world news stations lately, Oklahoma has experienced more than it's usual share of earthquakes lately..A 4.2 was recorded in the last week just North and East of OKC, OK..I felt it myself and I live over 25 miles from the recent one..they all seem to be centered around an area where there is heavy use of fracking...I was skeptical at first as to the cause or causes of the earthquake swarms, but I'm beginning to think there is a correlation between fracking and earthquakes...

I can imagine if fracking and damaging earthquakes are somehow proven to be linked, then there will be $billions$ of dollars spent on claims from damaged homeowners and businesses....And then you WILL SEE oil and natural gas prices explode...jury is still out
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Fracking may be relieving the pressure slowly and preventing a major earthquake, I said maybe, possibly, it could be but not under every geological situation.
 
nnuut said:
Fracking may be relieving the pressure slowly and preventing a major earthquake, I said maybe, possibly, it could be but not under every geological situation.
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Yeah, I also believe the small ones relieve the pressure to keep a big one from happening...But, the Geologist here are saying a bigger event is now more likely to happen and that the little quakes are precursors to a larger one...Like I said, jury is still out..
 
Buster said:
Yeah, I also believe the small ones relieve the pressure to keep a big one from happening...But, the Geologist here are saying a bigger event is now more likely to happen and that the little quakes are precursors to a larger one...Like I said, jury is still out..
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Yeah but they really don't know! When I lived on the San Andreas Fault in CA. [About 10 miles NNE] they always said that when we didn't have any earthquakes for an extended period of time we were more likely to have a BIG ONE. It's a major plate tectonic fault and possibly reacts differently than the minor fault lines. Just doesn't make good walking around sense to me.
 
Good site nnuut. Another one is Earthquakes.

If you look back, there are a lot of earthquakes everywhere every day.

There was one in SE CA a few years ago that was felt pretty good here in pahonicks. Shook the house, cracked the block wall around the house and brought the wife to the patio door. Sloshed the water in the pool in a counterclockwise manner and it came up the patio to the house. Wife, standing in the door cried "do something". I was speechless. Should have said "get the mop" or something sarcastic I suppose.

I posted all that a long time ago. These things happen and there was no fracking going on in that long ago epicenter as far as I know. We just don't know what the unintended consequences of any actions may be. The alternative is to do nothing for future energy needs and deal with it.

We must keep supporting alternative energy sources by doing stuff like loaning money to Solyndra.
 
When I was a kid in CA I remember how we could tell when a earthquake was starting, the glasses in the kitchen cabinets would start ringing, hitting together and playing a clanging symphony, the hanging lights would start swinging, GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
 
Some think there is a lot more than that!:cool:

[SIZE=+4]Oil Fields Are Refilling...
Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly
[/SIZE][SIZE=+2]There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth
[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]By Robert Cooke
Staff Writer - Newsday.com
4-10-5[/SIZE]

[TD="width: 601%"] [SIZE=+1]Deep underwater, and deeper underground, scientists see surprising hints that gas and oil deposits can be replenished, filling up again, sometimes rapidly.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Although it sounds too good to be true, increasing evidence from the Gulf of Mexico suggests that some old oil fields are being refilled by petroleum surging up from deep below, scientists report. That may mean that current estimates of oil and gas abundance are far too low.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Recent measurements in a major oil field show "that the fluids were changing over time; that very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing [oil pumping] was going on," said chemical oceanographer Mahlon "Chuck" Kennicutt. "They are refilling as we speak. But whether this is a worldwide phenomenon, we don't know."[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Also not known, Kennicutt said, is whether the injection of new oil from deeper strata is of any economic significance, whether there will be enough to be exploitable. The discovery was unexpected, and it is still "somewhat controversial" within the oil industry.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Kennicutt, a faculty member at Texas A&M University, said it is now clear that gas and oil are coming into the known reservoirs very rapidly in terms of geologic time. The inflow of new gas, and some oil, has been detectable in as little as three to 10 years. In the past, it was not suspected that oil fields can refill because it was assumed the oil formed in place, or nearby, rather than far below.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]According to marine geologist Harry Roberts, at Louisiana State University, "petroleum geologists don't accept it as a general phenomenon because it doesn't happen in most reservoirs. But in this case, it does seem to be happening. You have a very leaky fault system that does allow it to migrate in. It's directly connected to an oil and gas generating system at great depth."[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]What the scientists suspect is that very old petroleum -- formed tens of millions of years ago -- has continued migrating up into reservoirs that oil companies have been exploiting for years. But no one had expected that depleted oil fields might refill themselves.[more]

Oil Fields Are Refilling...Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth
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Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find


What would happen if it were proven that "fossil fuels" weren't the result of decaying plant and animal matter, were actually created within the Earth due to simple chemistry and you could not be scared into believing that we were "running out" of oil and natural gas? Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. As late as May of 2009 a report published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology suggested that we may have used more than we think.
The idea that we are running out of oil is not a new one. Scientists have told us that oil is a limited resource which was formed millions of years ago by the decaying vegetation and biomass of extinct species of plants and animals. With an estimated 1- trillion barrels of oil already extracted from deep wells since commercial drilling began around 1870, many predict that we are nearing the mid-point of remaining oil on the planet.
But there have always been those who claim that oil is a natural substance that forms automatically in the Earth's mantle. They say that it is virtually everywhere, if you can drill deep enough to tap it.
Proponents of so-called "abiotic oil" claim that the proof is found in the fact that many capped wells, which were formerly dry of oil, are found to be plentiful again after many years, They claim that the replenished oil is manufactured by natural forces in the Earth's mantle.[more]

Scientists Prove Abiotic Oil Is Real!
 
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