Latest Breaking News

itsrobert

(14,157 posts) Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:28 PM Feb 2016

PRELIM: M5.1 Z=1km 17:07 2/13 UTC, 28 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma

Source: USGS

ens@ens.usgs.gov PRELIM: M5.1 Z=1km 17:07 2/13 UTC, 28 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma http://on.doi.gov/1PJHNOq 3

Read more: http://on.doi.gov/1PJHNOq

5.1 , The quakes seem to be getting bigger in Oklahoma.

Are there bigger ones to ccome?

11 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

PRELIM: M5.1 Z=1km 17:07 2/13 UTC, 28 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma (Original Post) itsrobert Feb 2016 OP

Well I think the big question is are bigger ones avoidable? jwirr Feb 2016 #1

Probably not. 2naSalit Feb 2016 #4

report: Less than a mile deep. Felt in OKC, Tulsa, and Wichita, KS itsrobert Feb 2016 #2

Felt it here in Norman, Ok. South of OKC. n/t Tess49 Feb 2016 #7

Felt in Topeka, KS. nt deminks Feb 2016 #3

Is there fracking going on near there? Cleita Feb 2016 #5

The entire state is nothing but drilling mud underneath. Well, anywhere they have drilled for oil, jtuck004 Feb 2016 #9

We've had quakes too, for the first time in our lives--and fracking's been happening nearby. snot Feb 2016 #6

I just can't imagine fracking not causing quakes. It is, it's pure madness! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2016 #8

Welcome to Frackistan. NT bemildred Feb 2016 #10

The other issue is the depletion of the Ogallala Aquafer. mpcamb Feb 2016 #11

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. Well I think the big question is are bigger ones avoidable?

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:31 PM

Feb 2016

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)

4. Probably not.

Reply to jwirr (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:34 PM

Feb 2016

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)

2. report: Less than a mile deep. Felt in OKC, Tulsa, and Wichita, KS

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:31 PM

Feb 2016

n/t

Tess49

(1,580 posts)

7. Felt it here in Norman, Ok. South of OKC. n/t

Reply to itsrobert (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:42 PM

Feb 2016

deminks

(11,014 posts)

3. Felt in Topeka, KS. nt

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:33 PM

Feb 2016

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

5. Is there fracking going on near there?

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 01:35 PM

Feb 2016

If so, get your activist hat on and storm City Hall to make them stop.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

9. The entire state is nothing but drilling mud underneath. Well, anywhere they have drilled for oil,

Reply to Cleita (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 02:21 PM

Feb 2016

which blankets nearly the entire state.

You can't hardly drive any direction from the Capital without seeing those little monuments to monthly checks on nearly every farm or piece of property you pass.