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RednBlue11 wrote:

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.

RednBlue11 wrote:$100 they happen all the time you're just feeling them cuz they happen to be greater than a 3.0...anyway, NE Irving is the epicenter, the old bones of Texas Stadium are rattling!

JasonB wrote:

gostangs wrote: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 wrote:Any fault line in the DFW area that has been disrupted by drilling or whatever can cause these. Just need to see how many faults are in the DFW area.

Puckhead48E wrote:Football season obviously needs to start quick, or at least signing day, because far too many have too much time on their hands searching wikipedia for the geological history of north Texas!

skyscraper wrote:I've lived in Dallas all of my life, more than 25 years, and never felt an earthquake until today. Never even heard of multiple quakes happening here until the past two years with everything that was going on in Azle and now Irving.
It's unusual and deserves to be investigated, not dismissed. Things like this don't happen here.
I don't know what the causes are, but I'd like to find out.
Would be an interesting time to be an SMU researcher right now, that's for sure. Curious to see what they discover.

mrydel wrote:Christies plane probably took off.

couch 'em wrote:

SMU 86 wrote:Any fault line in the DFW area that has been disrupted by drilling or whatever can cause these. Just need to see how many faults are in the DFW area.

The old Texas stadium is right on top of the Balcones Fault, which runs from south texas, roughly up I35 through Irving and then splinters into Oklahoma and Arkansas. We are on top of what was once a large mountain range, the vestiges of which you can see in AR and OK.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcones_Fault

Comet wrote:I work downtown and didn't feel anything at all yesterday. Have a co-worker who has an apartment out in Las Colinas and she's ready to move. Keeps getting interrupted and woken up (shaken up too I'd imagine) at night due to constant earthquakes in the last 6 months. Do we have any idea what this could be? I've heard things ranging from University of Dallas drilling a well, to drilling and construction at the old Texas Stadium site, to fracking (which doesn't make sense here - too far from fracking, epicenter is too deep as well).

Comet wrote:Do we have any idea what this could be? I've heard things ranging from University of Dallas drilling a well, to drilling and construction at the old Texas Stadium site, to fracking (which doesn't make sense here - too far from fracking, epicenter is too deep as well).