Is fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma? searching the web

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/

As part of the fracking process, waste water is created which needs to be disposed of in separate deep wells. It is these deep wells that are correlated (likely causal) with the earthquakes.

However, these earthquakes are large enough to be felt but very rarely cause damage. So it doesn't seem like a big deal.

Yea. It's fracking retarded

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>>8319420
Yes, they basically said that very thing and started banning fracking there.

http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/oklahoma/recent


Oklahoma, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater)

15 earthquakes today
36 earthquakes in the past 7 days
114 earthquakes in the past month
2,506 earthquakes in the past year

Pic from:
http://earthquakes.ok.gov/what-we-know/earthquake-map/

>>8320337
>However, these earthquakes are large enough to be felt but very rarely cause damage. So it doesn't seem like a big deal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Oklahoma+earthquake+damage&tbm=isch

>>8320361
>>8320337
The earthquakes are a national security threat: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/oklahoma-earthquakes-are-a-national-security-threat

We need to send in seal team six to kill those fault lines and show them whose boss.

>>8320361

The USGS says that:

>Most of these earthquakes are in the magnitude 3–4 range, large enough to have been felt by many people, yet small enough to rarely cause damage.

Do you think a google image search with images from "offthegridnews.com" or "breitbart.com" is a more reputable source?

>>8320383
All it takes is one, you know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Oklahoma_earthquake#Damage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9316_Oklahoma_earthquake_swarms#Potential_damage

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>>8320392
>wikipedia

wikipedia a shit, kid

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>>8320395

>>8320392
>All it takes is one, you know.

Um, no? One minor damage event occurring very rarely doesn't change the calculus. Let's quote your own link:

>As a result of the magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 5, 2011, an estimated one million dollars in damage occurred in and around the Prague area.[56] So far, there has not been a significant amount of damage reported from other earthquakes, but in April 2014, the United States Geological Survey released an analysis indicating that "the likelihood of future, damaging earthquakes [in central and north-central Oklahoma] has increased as a result of the increased number of small and moderate shocks."[7]

So according to your own link, that's one million dollars in earthquake damages over 2009-2016. That's 7 years or $142,000 in the entire state, per year.

As I said in my first post, that is not a big deal.

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>>8320395
>>8320400
>>8320392
Ill just leave this here

>>8320402
>that is not a big deal.

That's the problem. It IS a big deal.

>>8320402
>that is not a big deal.

GB2/bed/Arbuckle

>>8320404
that's exactly the point

only a moron now looks at wikipedia as an uncited source and slanders it for it

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>>8320404
>>8320411
>wikipedia article citations are blogger pages that circle jerk each other

>>8320412
example?

>>8320411
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Oklahoma_earthquake#Damage

no that is exactly the point

only a moron looks at a wikipedia article and assumes it is true without checking the reference. and anyone who sites the wiki article as opposed to the legitimate one is not checking shit.

>>8320415
then you can point out which citations are false

>>8320414
It was a common thing. So common that I stopped looking at wikipedia for a few years now.

>>8320406
>>8320409

Do we just have some very different measure of what is a big deal?

I mean, the reason we are worried about whether fracking causes earthquakes is because we want to know whether it is a wise policy to ban fracking and thus stop the earthquakes.

But banning a billion dollar industry over $142,000 in annual earthquake damages seems crazy to me.

>>8320421
kek i loved how this thread has devolved.

Wiki is a wonderful place to get a start on an idea, but should never be used as a source let alone a sincere source of information. Some is bullshit, some is not, but it is up to you to do the due diligence and figure it out. Wiki is useless but those who collect the information via various sources is.

>>8320421
typical

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>>8320428
>earthquakes are not a big deal

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>>8319420
>Is fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma?

No, that is stupid. Humans can't start earth quakes without atom bombs.

>>8320361
FULL REATARD

>>8320434
A magnitude, say, 8 earthquake that kills people and destroys much property is a very big deal.

However, fracking is not correlated with such earthquakes. They are correlated with one magnitude 5.6 earthquake about once a decade that kills no one and causes annual property damages of $142,000.

Even though they are both part of the set "earthquake", the latter is not a big deal.

>>8320441
>jews putting dollar amounts on human suffering: example post

>>8320447
>million dollars worth of shit fallen off shelves or cracks in buildings is human suffering

?

>>8320450
>Advanced Cherry Picking: example post

>>8319420
yes.

that being said, i dont expect anything to happen besides a couple of small earthquakes.

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>>8320361
>they conveniently leave out the rest of the disposal wells now since it doesn't correlate with their agenda

This is what it looked like back in April of this year.