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Frakkin earthquakes!

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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 13:29
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 4:03 AM

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'Fracking' Disposal Sites Suspended, Likely Linked To Arkansas Earthquakes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Two natural gas companies have agreed to temporarily suspend use of injection wells in central Arkansas where earthquakes keep occurring.

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy and Clarita Operating of Little Rock told the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission on Friday that they've stopped operation of the wells near Greenbrier and Guy pending the panel's next regular meeting on March 29.

Clarita's parent company is True Energy Services of Ada, Okla.

The commission says there is likely a link between the wells and the earthquakes. There have been more than 800 quakes in the area in the past six months and a magnitude 4.7 quake – the strongest in Arkansas in 35 years – hit there Sunday.

The high-pressure wells are used to dispose of waste water from natural gas drilling.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/fracking-arkansas-earthquakes
_n_831633.html

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 4:58 AM

BYTEMITE

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There should not be earthquakes in Arkansas. These are by necessity unnatural. The only explanation I can come up with is underground explosions.

Waste water includes some explosive chemicals, in addition to the explosive known to be in the area with the natural gas, and injection process could introduce oxygen bubbles, maybe even froth the fluid. Putting the fluid down the wells with the oxygen equals explosions?

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 7:25 AM

BYTEMITE

Ah, I see. Normally for the midwest I would have been right, there's not a lot of faulting activity out there. It's part of the North American Craton, which is a broad geologically featureless region.

But Arkansas has the Ozarks and a few other mountain ranges unusual for the craton, that formed during a subduction event that eventually resulted in south america's position relative to north america.

So there actually are faults out there. In the region where these earthquakes are happening there's also hot springs in association with the faults.

But explosions during drilling for natural gas could cause those faults to shift, resulting in earthquakes.

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Monday, March 14, 2011 5:25 PM

RIONAEIRE

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Yup, there are faults all over, even in places you wouldn't think to find them. One of the US's worst earthquakes on record is the quake at New Madrid in Dec. 1811, many people haven't heard of it. I read a book recently that featured it and the geological changes that acompanied it, like a new lake etc. The novel itself was blah, I wouldn't recommend it, but the portion about New Madrid was quite interesting.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, March 14, 2011 7:10 PM

DREAMTROVE

Fracking is promoting quakes.

The way quakes work is that on a fault, one piece is moving relative to another, but they are not breaking contact.

Think about it as two pieces of rubber moving against each other: They would flex, slightly, to accommodate the changing position. At some point, the change would be too great, and they would shift, causing a quake.

An explosion like fracking is going to force that shift. It's not going to cause a quake where there *isn't* a fault, but it will cause one where there is one.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:29 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I went into depth about the New Madrid in the other post--that one just blows my mind. I'm not surprised few have heard of it; I didn't know anything about it until a long-time friend in Illinois enlightened me. Then I checked it out, and to say a born-and-bred California girl who lived through 'quakes and remembers them even back to when I was a young child had her eyes pop open and jaw drop tells you what I think of the New Madrid!

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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