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Earthquake!
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Nothing over here. Then again we rarely feel anything in the central valley. Hope you folks out in the east coast are ok.
JHZR2
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Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
If I felt a 1.0 before, that's high.
Haven't they been saying that the east coast is due for a bigger one?
Maybe (hopefully) this is it...
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
If I felt a 1.0 before, that's high.
Haven't they been saying that the east coast is due for a bigger one?
Maybe (hopefully) this is it...
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Largest in over 40 years in CO.
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Largest in over 40 years in CO.
Epi-center near Richmond VA. No reports of damages on CNN.
6.0 can cause damage to buildings that weren't designed to handle that.
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Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Largest in over 40 years in CO.
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Government buildings are closing and there is panic everywhere...over a 6.0? That's just a decent shaker on the west coast. Move along, nothing to see here....
6.0s historically in the northeast have caused substantial damage. They don't have the building codes like Japan or the western US has.
http://www.nesec.org/hazards/earthquakes.cfm#history
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Largest in over 40 years in CO.
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
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There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Still waiting to see it. I'm sure there is some damage of fascia and other things but evacuating the Pentagon and the White House for a 5.8-6.0?? Closing airports?
Serious over reaction and panic happening.
There's already been reports of damage.
Plenty "to see here".
Still waiting to see it. I'm sure there is some damage of fascia and other things but evacuating the Pentagon and the White House for a 5.8-6.0?? Closing airports?
Serious over reaction and panic happening.
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
Cali-for-nia no longer has the sole entitlents of earth quakes.
You're in a fault zone ..the Atlantic Plate.This particular plate moves slowly compared to the pacific plate, however it does move.
You're in a fault zone ..the Atlantic Plate.This particular plate moves slowly compared to the pacific plate, however it does move.
JHZR2
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Originally Posted By: Tempest
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
It is feasible, were seeing that whole areas are sinking and raising due to water table changes and other things.
Whether or not it was the case here is another question.
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
It is feasible, were seeing that whole areas are sinking and raising due to water table changes and other things.
Whether or not it was the case here is another question.
"unusual event" at nine nuke reactors
Whole house shook here in value beach for about 30 sec. Never thought id feel that. They say it was just below richmond
Originally Posted By: Tempest
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
Taken from an article on the USGS website - it's offline currently I'm assuming because of excessive bandwidth from today's quakes.
"A swarm of 12 widely felt earthquakes occurred between August 28 and September 21, 2001, in the area west of the town of Trinidad, Colorado. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude between 2.8 and 4.6, and the largest event occurred on September 5, eight days after the initial M 3.4 event. The nearest permanent seismograph station to the swarm is about 290 km away, resulting in large uncertainties in the location and depth of these events. To better locate and characterize the earthquakes in this swarm, we deployed a total of 12 portable seismographs in the area of the swarm starting on September 6. Here we report on data from this portable network that was recorded between September 7 and October 15. During this time period, we have high-quality data from 39 earthquakes. The hypocenters of these earthquakes cluster to define a 6 km long northeast-trending fault plane that dips steeply (70-80°) to the southeast. The upper bound of well-constrained hypocenters is near 3 km depth and lower bound is near 6 km depth. Preliminary fault mechanisms suggest normal faulting with movement down to the southeast.
Significant historical earthquakes have occurred in the Trinidad region in 1966 and 1973. Reexamination of felt reports from these earthquakes suggest that the 1973 events may have occurred in the same area, and possibly on the same fault, as the 2001 swarm.
In recent years, a large volume of excess water that is produced in conjunction with coal-bed methane gas production has been returned to the subsurface in fluid disposal wells in the area of the earthquake swarm. Because of the proximity of these disposal wells to the earthquakes, local residents and officials are concerned that the fluid disposal might have triggered the earthquakes."
Same thing is happening in Arkansas.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/fracking-arkansas-earthquakes_n_831633.html
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Indeed - the CO quake is looking more and more like it was caused from coal bed natural gas fracking; the same thing happened in the same area in CO in 2001 after natrual gas fracking and excess water from operations was pumped back into the ground.
I'd like to see proof of this.
Taken from an article on the USGS website - it's offline currently I'm assuming because of excessive bandwidth from today's quakes.
"A swarm of 12 widely felt earthquakes occurred between August 28 and September 21, 2001, in the area west of the town of Trinidad, Colorado. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude between 2.8 and 4.6, and the largest event occurred on September 5, eight days after the initial M 3.4 event. The nearest permanent seismograph station to the swarm is about 290 km away, resulting in large uncertainties in the location and depth of these events. To better locate and characterize the earthquakes in this swarm, we deployed a total of 12 portable seismographs in the area of the swarm starting on September 6. Here we report on data from this portable network that was recorded between September 7 and October 15. During this time period, we have high-quality data from 39 earthquakes. The hypocenters of these earthquakes cluster to define a 6 km long northeast-trending fault plane that dips steeply (70-80°) to the southeast. The upper bound of well-constrained hypocenters is near 3 km depth and lower bound is near 6 km depth. Preliminary fault mechanisms suggest normal faulting with movement down to the southeast.
Significant historical earthquakes have occurred in the Trinidad region in 1966 and 1973. Reexamination of felt reports from these earthquakes suggest that the 1973 events may have occurred in the same area, and possibly on the same fault, as the 2001 swarm.
In recent years, a large volume of excess water that is produced in conjunction with coal-bed methane gas production has been returned to the subsurface in fluid disposal wells in the area of the earthquake swarm. Because of the proximity of these disposal wells to the earthquakes, local residents and officials are concerned that the fluid disposal might have triggered the earthquakes."
Same thing is happening in Arkansas.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/fracking-arkansas-earthquakes_n_831633.html
Here Tempest, this is from Fox News so you'll think it's more legitimate.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/01/fracking-earthquakes-arkansas-man-experts-warn/
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/01/fracking-earthquakes-arkansas-man-experts-warn/
It shook my house, and had the kid across the street run out of her house with her dog. No damage but a weird feeling!
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