Okay, enough is enough

[vielsiehorsepower]

God is angry at us...couldn't be fracking

[JasonB]

Are the buildings in this area built with earthquakes in mind???

I know in SoCal the buildings are now built with steel so they can bend. I'm sure most here are concrete and would have no chance in a sizable quake. We joke but a 5.0 or higher quake around here could be disastrous.

It's the no warning that freaks me out. I have no idea if bigger ones are possible here but the the thought scares me.

If from the bay area, and there is a reason why nothing is built with brick in cali. non-reinforced buildings can probably handle a 5, but the exterior facing on houses would potentially be a disaster.

[Statler]

Try being up in. Preston Tower - it swayed.

[diamond_tom]

Christies plane probably took off.

LOL! Well Done!

[No Quarter]

Is there still a seismograph in the lower level of the science building? Or maybe I should start with is it still Fondren?

[smusic 00]

SMU is investigating these quakes; has been for a while.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/SMU-Pr ... 95641.html

[Junior]

People are always talking about these but I have never felt one of these where I live in Murphy

this was the first one I've ever felt.

[No Quarter]

Is fracking used to exploit the The oil or gas - whichever or both - reserves to the west that benefit Fort Worth and TCU?

If not, how far away is the closest place? -

[gostangs]

environmental loonies will have to think of some other reason to be against fracking - these are not from fracking. closest gas drilling has been to Dallas is DFW - and i am 90% sure they are not drilling or fracking there currently.

And i definitely felt this one - first one i have ever felt. Pretty big jolt.

[Stallion]

Get used to it-Shake Milton is coming to Town

[well travelled pony]

Get used to it-Shake Milton is coming to Town

Greatness, Stallion!

Go Ponies!

[couch 'em]

The going theory is the waste injection wells (term?) And not the actual fracking wells may be encouraging quakes. There is one for by the old Texas stadium. .... supposedly.

Either way, a major fault line runs right through there and we only have 150 years of data as to whether it normally causes problems.

[gostangs]

epicenter 3 miles down. It has nothing to do with any kind of oil and gas activity.

[JasonB]

environmental loonies will have to think of some other reason to be against fracking - these are not from fracking. closest gas drilling has been to Dallas is DFW - and i am 90% sure they are not drilling or fracking there currently.

And i definitely felt this one - first one i have ever felt. Pretty big jolt.

Dunno if it is fracking or not, but certainly is a recent phenomenon.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... micity.php

One could argue that there is some change in the local environment that is causing it, and although it could be wrong, people are going to naturally deduce fracking because of its use in other environments where earthquakes started happening suddenly. At some point you have to try and connect dots... The Balcones Fault, which the irving earthquakes are associated with, could have potentially become active after 15 million years of being dormant, but I would say environmental changes have a higher probability chance of being the cause.

Admittedly, I don't know as much about this stuff as I probably should. Minor earthquakes don't bother me that much, and are probably not worth avoiding at the cost of having a higher price of gas. I have no idea if there is a bigger risk from earthquakes, or contaminating the water supply though injection of waste water, or no risk at all.

What I would suggest is that the same people who said there is no such thing as climate change now insist that there is no danger from fracking. So I kind of don't trust them that much. I'm more than happy to encourage them to invest in buying property in Venice since they are so convinced climate change isn't happening and it isn't rapid.

[SMU 86]

They are drilling close enough to us for gas that it could cause an unsettling in any faults that might be there. I where was the epicenter of the quake?