Tremor in LS at 0350?
Felt my whole house shake at 0350ish. Just one shake. Anyone else feel it? Tremor or wind?
Posted Nov 30, 2015, 9:57 AM UTC
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Probably this guy, a magnitude 4.5 in Oklahoma, pretty close to the Kansas border, a little west of I-35, and 3:49:13 US-CST: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000424d#general_summary
You can send the USGS a report describing what you felt at your location. The reports show up on this map after a little while - click the "stack of paper" icon in the upper right corner and check the "DYFI Responses" box.
I didn't notice it in Blue Springs. The dog might have noticed it, but then again, he sometimes wants to get up to use the yard at around that time anyway.
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Post to r/LeesSummit as well about this. People there may confirm your suspicions too.
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We felt it out here in Gardner.
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Felt it in Wichita
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Felt it in Liberty.
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Oooooooooklahoma where the earthquakes are almost certainly unrelated to the rampant fracturing of shale miles below the Earth's crussssst.
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I felt it as well. 3:47 am. I live near the top of a 10-story HUD highrise, very near KC, and once again, my whole building swayed :(
It was a 4.7 (per USGS) centered 5 km underground somewhere in north central Oklahoma. Not as powerful as the last quake/tremor we had, though (which was only a few weeks before this recent one! AND was FAR more powerful!)
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There was an earthquake a couple of minutes ago in Oklahoma, I believe. I felt it as well.
There's an Earthquake several times a day in Oklahoma anymore. I think they've had something like 2,500 earthquakes this year.
But it obviously can't be related to fracking, there's no way to prove that fracking causes earthquakes.
I'm assuming with the word "obviously" in your reply... That you do happen to think that it does prove that fracking does trigger some additional shakes in the ground.
P.S. That's a lot of earthquakes/tremors if true.
Most fracking areas tend to have earthquake swarms associated with them. But they're generally very small, and they are using hydraulic pressure to extract the oil, and earthquakes are how pressure is dispersed in the Earth's crust. So not exactly surprising.
The always insightful u/nordicnomad!
I'm not sure if it proves it, but the fact that the increase in Earthquakes has been so high and it started happening when fracking started, I think the results are too big to completely ignore or disregard all together like the fracking industry does.
You can find more info here: http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/
Go to recent Earthquakes and you'll see there has been 18 in the last 7 days that have been 3.0 or higher in Oklahoma.
I lived in Oklahoma for over 10 years (1997-2008). The prevailing opinion there seemed to be that God gave us the planet to do whatever we want with.
It took a while for the Oklahoma state government to admit that fracking and earthquakes might be related, but they did it earlier this year: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060021388 .
In 2013, the state seismologist was starting to talk publically about the correlation, but he made the mistake of not getting his comments cleared by the oil and gas industry. He was "invited" to a discussion with the president of the University of Oklahoma, and the chairman of an oil company. Eventually, after the correlation was allowed to be publicly discussed, he left the state.
Sarcasm is very hard for me to detect so i am REALLY HOPING that that "obviously" was meant to be sarcastic?! :(
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