The earthquake that occurred in North Texas in the wee hours of the morning was the 8th quake in 5 weeks for that same area. I think we call that a cluster.
- 2.7M July 6th with map
- 2.3M June 5th
- 3.1M June 15th with map
- 2.6M June 23rd with maps
- 3.5M June 24th
- 2.6M June 26th
- 2.3M June 30th
Gas Patch residents who live in zones of extraction should routinely document the condition of their foundations and walls. This documentation may be important one day for a class action suit like the one in Arkansas.
Update: Charts from a reader.
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Data for second graph:
http://neic.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/epic/epic.cgi?SEARCHMETHOD=3&FILEFORMAT=4&SEARCHRANGE=HH&CLAT=32.67222&CLON=-97.3486&CRAD=200
Are these near fracking sites or injection well, or perhaps both?
Lots of both.
Have friends that live up by Krum – shook them up
Probably due to a clusterfrack – too much fracking waste
It would sure be interesting to get a glimpse of the production logs from some of the O&G wells in area surrounding those quakes.
We do know that earthquakes can cause an up-tic in production in oil wells; but that’s essentially all we know at this point.
It seems like the injection well operators there in Cleburne might now be getting things truly “dialed-in”. Somewhere right between 2.5 and 3M seems to be just about right. Once or twice a week seems to work fine.
I hope I’m wrong. I hope these induced seismic events are not being induced intentionally. I hope you’ve seen the last of this sort of thing there in N. Texas and throughout Gasland.
And I hope the Israelis and Palestinians can patch up their differences soon also. After all, it’s a small world.
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