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By: Natural Gas Fracking Good at Creating Earthquakes | CleanTechnica

Natural Gas Fracking Good at Creating Earthquakes | CleanTechnica — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:35:35 +0000

[…] from the Earth are linked to flammable water and, it seems, earthquakes. I wrote about the possible link between fracking and earthquakes in Arkansas back in March. Now there’s news, from a company that engages in fracking, that it is probably […]

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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:21:23 +0000

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By: Johann von Erdbeben

Johann von Erdbeben — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:47:00 +0000

Very interesting point. One thing worth considering: Would we be able to reliably control the release of energy? That is to say, are the nearly daily 2.5’s that Guy/Greenbrier are experiencing standard issue, or would more pent up energy mean daily 5.0’s or 6.0’s until the fault has exhausted itself? I like the idea though- certainly could warrant some further research if this is found to be a possibility.

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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:50:06 +0000

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By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:44:18 +0000

interesting…

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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:57:01 +0000

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By: Francis Milholland

Francis Milholland — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:51:11 +0000

Not only are they related to earthquakes but they are destroying our water which is more important than natural gas!We had them test our water and they say chlorine is in it ,well we have never added chlorine to our well.It has oil that float’s on top of the water,we don’t add oil to our water.

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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:05:51 +0000

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By: bills and more

bills and more — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:33:19 +0000

fwiw dept: as a kid growing up in denver colorado in the 60’s, we started having earthquakes. really amazing. turns out it was the Rocky Flats Army depot, they were disposing of outdated chemical weapons by pumping them deep into the earth, eventually causing massive structural adjustments.

By: Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:06:23 +0000

Is anyone discussing the possibility that if fracking is causing quakes it might actually be a good thing?

Fracking is only going to cause tremors if there is plate pressure present in the area. Normally pressure will build until it is sufficient to move stuff around. Stuff may not slip until the amount of pressure is high, and that can mean a large, destructive quake.

Triggering tremors while pressure is less might serve to relieve pressure thus avoiding a large quake.