Is The North American Craton moving again? There is evidence to suggest it has come to life. Details inside.

Hi El, sorry to go off topic, but there have been a few 4.7 4.9's in Japan today do you think they could be building up to a big earthquake again?
thanks

I think it has to do with the fracking process. At least the rumbles in Texas. I have lived here all of my life and have watched this beautiful state be STRIPPED of it's natural resources. Beginning with the cattle trails in the 1880s (? bad with history dates, which I was not alive for but I have read about growing up with Texas History) causing the deserts in mid-Texas to the oil wells springing up everywhere. There is an oil well literally across the street from a park and a hospital. There are homes across the other street from the well. We've sucked this land dry and sent jolts through the bedrock with the fracking process. I've read info stating that there is no tie between earthquakes and drilling...I don't believe a damn thing in those reports. Rick Perry has sold Texas out and if anyone thinks he won't do the same to the U.S. is blind. Perry cleared the way for the Barnett Shale project, and I believe that with the HIGH heat temps for 4 months baking the clay and the removal of the natural gas pockets are causing these earthquakes. Perhaps it's dis balancing weight with the flooding in the U.S., tsunami's and earthquakes in other regions. Think of a game of Jenga where you are removing the bottom layers first...doesn't work.

ugh please do me a favor and go read a sixth grade geology book!
The Frac process can not in any size shape or fashion contain enough power to cause an earthquake! The Frac gun charges are equal to a few thousand .45 ACP rounds going off! Also our deepest fracs in west Texas gas plays occur above 10,000 feet!
Sometimes the ignorance drives me insane!!

I'm sorry XP but I have to say you are wrong on this one. USGS has admitted that Hydraulic Fracturing can trigger damaging earthquakes.

Here it is right from their site;

Q: Can you prevent large earthquakes by making lots of small ones, or by "lubricating" the fault with water or another material?

A: Seismologists have observed that for every magnitude 6 earthquake there are 10 of magnitude 5, 100 of magnitude 4, 1,000 of magnitude 3, and so forth as the events get smaller and smaller. This sounds like a lot of small earthquakes, but there are never enough small ones to eliminate the occasional large event. It would take 32 magnitude 5's, 1000 magnitude 4's, 32,000 magnitude 3's to equal the energy of one magnitude 6 event. So, even though we always record many more small events than large ones, there are never enough to eliminate the need for the occasional large earthquake.

As for "lubricating" faults with water or some other substance, injecting high pressure fluids deep into the ground is known to be able to trigger earthquakes to occur sooner than would have been the case without the injection. However this would be a dangerous pursuit in any populated area, as one might trigger a damaging earthquake.

Link here;

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Here is a link to the Oklahoma earthquake map. Funny how a whole lot of these NEVER show up on USGS.

If you take these into consideration, it really makes for a strange, long line.

[link to www.okgeosurvey1.gov]

I wonder if any other states have a geological survey with maps that we can access.

Might be an interesting picture - if we actually got to see ALL of the earthquakes - not just what USGS wants us to see

Thanks El Q. I was about to go find the articles I have read recently about the lies of fracking. No way can you do as much to the earth as we have done sucking resources out over the years without doing some damage.

El Q in my personal opinion the ground is going to fissure. probably wont leave holes though, they will fill with water ... Looks like its heading west so perhaps a new body of water for W virginia