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SMU 86 wrote:

couch 'em wrote:Felt actual swaying in the FB

What does FB stand for? The federal building?

Farmers Branch. About 20 miles north of downtown Dallas.

Oh okay. I know where that is.

http://www.smu.edu/News/2015/earthquake ... -06jan2015

From the smu web site.

SMU’s seismology team is committed to helping North Texans understand more about the increasing number of earthquakes felt in our region over the last few years, most recently near the City of Irving.

A 2.4-magnitude earthquake recorded at 8:29 p.m. Jan. 1, 2015, and estimated to be near the old Texas Stadium site was the 17th earthquake felt in the area since early September.

An SMU team installed one portable seismometer in a building on the northeast side of the City of Irving Monday, Jan. 5, aiming to supplement data being collected from more distant sites by the United States Geological Survey to identify the location of the quakes. The location of the Irving seismometer is not being made public to preserve the integrity of the data it collects.

This latest installation provides a third source of data SMU can tap in helping to determine the location of the Irving-area earthquakes. The seismology team also can retrieve data from a University-controlled portable seismometer previously installed at a site south of DFW airport, as well as the seismometer permanently installed in the basement of Heroy Hall on the SMU campus.

SMU’s interest in these Irving-area earthquakes is at this point focused on helping to identify their exact location.

The University’s seismology team is not currently engaged in a larger study of the cause of the Irving quakes, but I will brief the Irving City Council Jan. 15 on what data might be expected from the Irving installation, as well as on the results of past research into earthquakes in the Fort Worth Basin. Information on those previous SMU studies is available at http://www.smu.edu/News/NewsIssues/EarthquakeStudy.

There has been a significant increase in earthquakes in the Fort Worth basin since October 2008. It’s important to all of us to learn as much as we can about them.

Damn aliens

gostangs wrote:So whenever past tremors have happened where they weren't there before, that was caused by drilling activity? Even before there was drilling activity?

Humans always grossly overestimate their impact on everything. It is human nature.

Global warming

SMU89 wrote:

gostangs wrote:So whenever past tremors have happened where they weren't there before, that was caused by drilling activity? Even before there was drilling activity?

Humans always grossly overestimate their impact on everything. It is human nature.

Global warming

Climate change...get with the proper terminology de jour. I'm going with mrydel's explanation.

Just felt 2 more, about a minute apart (around 8:20 PM Tuesday). Small, I guess, but significant enough to be kind of unnerving.

this just appeared near the old texas stadium

Dark Horse wrote:Just felt 2 more, about a minute apart (around 8:20 PM Tuesday). Small, I guess, but significant enough to be kind of unnerving.

Yep.

WFAA TV ‏@wfaachannel8 4 minutes ago
USGS says 2,9 Irving quake delivered two jolts. 3rd quake of the evening in same area.

Dark Horse wrote:Just felt 2 more, about a minute apart (around 8:20 PM Tuesday). Small, I guess, but significant enough to be kind of unnerving.

Mag 2.9, 3.1 Miles ENE of Irving 20 min ago...also 4 in California in that time time period so......

which happens to be the location of the Gas Monkey Bar n Grill

Have felt all of them today. They have been legitimate quakes. Previously they had talked about a bunch of quakes but today is the first time I've felt any of the Irving earthquakes.


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just today there have been 28 earth quakes in the lower 48 of a magnitude ranging from 2.5-4.5

RednBlue11 wrote:just today there have been 28 earth quakes in the lower 48 of a magnitude ranging from 2.5-4.5

Wonderful, but not relevant


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CalallenStang wrote:Have felt all of them today. They have been legitimate quakes. Previously they had talked about a bunch of quakes but today is the first time I've felt any of the Irving earthquakes.

I haven't felt any of them and I hope it stays that way!

CalallenStang wrote:

RednBlue11 wrote:just today there have been 28 earth quakes in the lower 48 of a magnitude ranging from 2.5-4.5

Wonderful, but not relevant


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simply pointing out that the EQ's that are happening around the intersection of 114 and 183 are not particularly unusual, there was one earlier in Snyder, tx and also several in Oklahoma, i'd say a little more than half have been all over california.