Earthquakes in Texas?

Is something about to happen? This isn't normal...or is it.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/19712394/detail.html

5th Earthquake Shakes North Texas
Tremors Don't Cause Any Damage

POSTED: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

CLEBURNE, Texas -- A fourth earthquake prompted city officials to hire a geologist and then another earthquake happened about an hour before the emergency meeting.

The fifth earthquake took place Tuesday at 6:19 p.m. and the U.S. Geological Survey measured it at a 2.1-magnitude. Cleburne officials called for an 8 p.m. emergency meeting Tuesday after the fourth earthquake, measuring a 2.6, happened that same day at 5:10 p.m.

No damage or injuries have been reported from the tremors.

Mayor Ted Reynolds said residents want to know whether the earthquakes are connected to natural gas drilling in the town, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The other earthquakes within the last week had magnitudes of 2.3, 2.6 and 2.8.

:think:

:tinfoilhat:

:rofl:

We get a few here and there, but this many this close together has people scratching their heads.

an emerging volcano can cause them too. If you have any hot springs areas there, these are places that could be the start of volcanic activity and earthquakes.

not every Texan is a loud braggart...I am a former resident...

coincidentally,in the same vicinity of the earthquakes


the major faultlines

I had thought the fault line that runs through that area had been dormant for 13 million years though. I guess I got my fault lines wrong.

and family that these quakes are the result of frac drilling for natural gas in the Barnett Shale.

Here's more »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_earthquakes_drilling

CLEBURNE, Texas – The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last. There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling — which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas — causing the quakes?

"I think John Q. Public thinks there is a correlation with drilling," Mayor Ted Reynolds said. "We haven't had a quake in recorded history, and all the sudden you drill and there are earthquakes."

At issue is a drilling practice called "fracking," in which water is injected into the ground at high pressure to fracture the layers of shale and release natural gas trapped in the rock.

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I heard and felt the first quake on June 2. The epicenter was 3 miles directly below my feet.