Is Fracking Wastewater Shaking Up Oklahoma?

Local tremor activity has long been associated with injection wells and is well documented in numerous studies....Injection wells by their nature add stress to underground bedrock formations, and a 'not to distant' earthquake is enough to trigger some settling activity....with the fracking activity reaching a feverish pitch in Oklahoma, and the accompanying injection wells, this is no surprise.....

http: //preservethebeartoothfront.com/2014/02/20/update-fracking-causes-earthquakes-with-video/

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/3107

Well I think that might be a bit of an exaggeration....I lived for a short time in the great northwest and we used to get these so often people would hardly even notice....sort of like a distant sonic boom that just shook the windows with a deep base resonance that felt like distant thunder emanating from below....the first few times gets your attention and when it lasts for several seconds, you wait for the tsunami warning siren to go off, but then is quickly forgotten.....I never even knew what the siren was for until I asked somebody after about the third time hearing it go off...What is that annoying siren that goes off all the time? Oh that's the warning siren for a tidal wave...WHAT!?!? Oh don't worry we are far enough away from the beach(3 blocks)....Come to find out the tidal waves were not the 100' wave I was picturing in my mind, but a series of small back to back waves that rarely ever came up to the road, but then quickly retreated leaving interesting debris for the beachcombers...It was at that time I learned that any storm provided a beachcombing event, and thus began my career hobby as a beachcomber....

Id build a bunker while there's still time

Oklahoma Has 300 Times More Earthquakes Now; Can We ...

Oklahoma quakes top tremors in California - CNN.com

Oklahoma earthquakes linked to fracking wastewater wells ...

Fifth of the quakes that helped turn the state into the earthquake capital of America were caused by just four wells.

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The real issue is disposal wells - not hydraulic fracking, so let's quit the sensational bull dung and call it what it is. A waste-water disposal well problem.

Disposal wells have been around for many decades. I logged a number of them in Michigan in the early 1980's to prove the chemical companies, whose disposal wells they were, weren't injecting a low pH water into them. (they were - but that's not the issue here) They never had an earthquake problem there. There is a quite a bit of difference in the potential for quakes there than in Oklahoma. As a side note, Michigan should have some surface subsidence by now considering what they were doing to a rather thick limestone formation about 1500 feet down. I could measure up to 120" diameter hole (the borehole was supposed to be 8" diameter) and my tool pegged out in this formation.

So, we may infer from this that the Oklahoma area of the country, which has some fault lines, is more prone to quakes from the faults being "lubricated" than the Michigan area. (or NY, or PA - there are disposal wells there too) Fracking is not the problem - water disposal wells are, particularly near fault lines. We need to limit disposal wells near faults - period.

Did you bother to read the title of the thread?

"Is Fracking Wastewater Shaking Up Oklahoma"

And, you really can't separate fracking and fracking wastewater, now can you?

Oklahoma earthquakes linked to fracking wastewater wells ...

The whole point of the head line is to accentuate the fracking hysteria. It happens to be fracking waste water here, in this case, but if Oklahoma suddenly developed a huge chemical industry and they began injecting their waste water as Michigan does, chances are very high the effect would be the same.The headline is just there to increase the objections to fracking, not to water injection, when that is obviously a serious issue to deal with. I also doubt that the media would jump on a series of earth quakes caused by waste water injection wells if the term "fracking" could not be tied to it somehow.

You sound like tcmtech justifying burning tires and used motor oil, or laughing off the needless burning off of millions of dollars worth of gas instead of waiting for infrastructure, because the fracking idiots in ND want the money now. As the idiot Sarah Palin said, "drill baby, drill".

FRACKING is a needless waste of groundwater (millions of gallons per well, PER WELL)

Fracking pollutes ground water and causes earthquakes. Fracking waste water does also.

You can't pee in my boot and tell me it's raining.