20 earthquakes registered in Oklahoma since Wednesday night

[deminks]

Source: KTUL Tulsa

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported 20 earthquakes in Oklahoma within just a few hours of each other.

The 20th registered as a 3.6-magnitude and was recorded at 7:41 Thursday morning. A 2.8 shook the ground at 5:13 a.m.

The first came in as a 4.3 on the Richter scale and hit 19 miles northwest of Fairview at 10:27 p.m. Wednesday night.

The second reported rocked near Alva and was the strongest quake of the group, coming in at a 4.8-magnitude earthquake. It was recorded at 10:28 p.m.

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Read more: http://wset.com/news/nation-world/four-earthquakes-reported-across-green-country

[Sienna86]

1. What are residents of Oklahoma thinking of this?

Is there outrage? Is the legislature considering any action?

[tazkcmo]

6. Not sure.

Are they even aware of what earthquakes are? I see who they vote for there and can only assume they are very under educated so they may not even be aware of tectonics unless it's to mistake it for a cheap electronics manufacturer.

[OKNancy]

13. Obviously someone is "under educated"

Your post is ridiculous.

[Tess49]

15. Yes, we are aware of "what earthquakes are". Even the under educated here are getting

sick of this. Two of those last night rattled my house. Our Corporation Commission has sued Sandridge Oil because they have defied an order to stop using injection wells in the area. Sandridge has decided they will pay fines rather than stop. Remember, we have a Governor, Mary Fallin, who has her head up the asses of the oil industry. But, you're right. These cretins reelected her.

[Marty McGraw]

16. Good to know

Oklahoma's still in one piece. Some day in the near future I will have to come out there & visit the lava fields.

[Tess49]

18. If my house is still standing, feel free to stop by! n/t

[Marty McGraw]

20. I could just imagine

the gorgeous view outside your dining room window circa 2023!

[Tess49]

23. Not bad!! I'll need a little stream runing through there...just to top off that view! n/t

[Marty McGraw]

29. If for some reason

You ever find yourself Traveling North on the 5 in WA state, take exit 49 for the spirit lake Hwy and head to the Johnston Observatory overlooking Mt. St. Helens. It is truly out of this world experience!

(curtains draw back after the short documentary film with an extraordinary view. shown very miniature here of course )

[trillion]

30. I'm sorry to hear this. Good luck to you.

[Tess49]

31. Thank you! n/t

[LiberalElite]

28. To be charitable - your OP is a real stretch -

either that or it's off the charts condescending.

[LiberalArkie]

8. If they are anything like the oil people in south Arkansas.

"Don't say anything or all the jobs will go away."

or my Favorite

"Don't say anything or the oil and gas companies will move somewhere else"

[angryvet]

10. I received an email yesterday

telling me that no one in OK voted for Obama and now they have the 10 commandments posted everywhere and prayer in school. Obviously god isn't working to stop the earthquakes.

[OKNancy]

11. In 2008 the number who voted for Obama was 500,000

[Dan]

32. Maybe God

Is using the earthquakes and tornadoes to send a message...

Sad humor, but was raised there...

[OKNancy]

12. There is a lot of outrage. Even some Republicans are calling for action

Some frackers have been shut down, but others are defient

[kath]

14. We're thinking we're royally screwed - now that they have admitted the earthquakes are caused by the

Oil and gas industry, insurance companies will NOT cover earthquake damage. So no point in adding earthquake coverage to your homeowner's policy. To add icing to the cake, a month or two two back I got a notice from my CAR insurance company that they also will not cover earthquake damage due to "activities of the oil and natural gas industry" or similar language.

Oh, but I'm sure it will be real easy to file a claim with the fucking frackers when your chimney falls off or your house is cleaved in two, and they will be happy to pay for the damage...

[plcdude]

19. many are outraged

including me. Protests and constant communications with state officials who are so beholding to the energy companies here are basically "stonewalling" it. It is reported on our news media without any value placed on their occurrences other than their magnitude and frequency. We are destroying ourselves for the quick riches that has always been the modus operandi of the oil and gas crowd. The land is being cracked open and filled with toxic waste and the powers to be are avoiding dealing with it. We have an overabundance of wind and sun in this state and could still be an energy provider but the Sandridges, Devons, and Chesapeakes of this state are politically immune to correction or legal action. So yes the outrage exists among some of the public but there is no official outrage. That will come when we have fracked that last bit of oil and gas from under us and our water will be poisoning us.

[peacebird]

2. So fracking poisons potable water resources and causes swarms of earthquakes...

So what? As long as the oil companies make a profit who cares?

[arcane1]

27. And do they pay for the damages, or is that cost simply another "externality"?

We all know the answer.

[lonestarnot]

3. Directly proportional to oilers losing their asses and stock market slide, now they fucking up all

the oakies shit.

[underpants]

4. Sharia C. H. U. D.s no doubt

[nyabingi]

5. We are making our only livable planet

uninhabitable because of short-term greed.

People will not understand how much of a threat the extractors are to human existence until it's too late (if it's not already).

[valerief]

7. Earth farts and sepsis from fracking. nt

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. In other earth breaking news....

Gov. Snyder, MI.-R, wants to exchange the a Flint River water for the fracking water.

He says, that the lead in the water from the river will settle those quakes and the fracking water is cleaner than what he supplied for Flint's residents.






I jest of course.

[mindwalker_i]

17. Somebody tell the Oak Ridge boys

... to lay off the Taco Bell.

[rladdi]

21. Just keep fracking for oil OK. Fill the ground with poison water and earthquakes will continue.

Any wise politician would be concerned, but not the ignorant Republicans.

[arikara]

22. That is quite the investigative report

All it does is list the magnitude and time of the quakes.

I feel for you. We have a nutty government here in BC who thinks to make us rich by fracking, and they are causing some quakes up in north eastern BC. The premier signed an agreement with a corrupt company out of Indonesia and the only thing saving us right now is that there is little to no market for for what we have.

We just had a 4.9 earthquake here although a natural one and not caused by fracking. It shook the house and cracked our sewer line. I can't imagine living with them on a steady basis, especially when you know they are caused by nothing more than greed and corruption.

[tclambert]

24. But Sen. Inhofe says, "God's still up there." So how can lowly humans affect God's world?

Apparently oil and gas fracking companies are more powerful than his god.

[ozone_man]

25. Sounds like a lot of fracking going on.

Or is it a coincidence?

[CanonRay]

26. Must be "God's wrath"