Look Out!

[icenine]

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/frack...es-8C11073601#

[bobabode]

Cool! When that fracking fluid reaches the Cuyahoga, Pete can light it on fire again. Fun times.

[CarlV]

Those girly quakes are fine for them but we here on the Pacific coast don't need any of that kind of help.


Carl

[merrylander]

We here on the east coast are sitting on the oldest (read settled) mountain chain in NorAm yet we have had two quakes recently - go figure.

[icenine]

I grew up in Ohio Carl the thought of even the smallest quake there was considered in the realm of science fiction lol

[BlueStreak]

Great. Just what Youngstown needs-------a Catch 22 style disaster.

Economically, it's having a much needed positive impact.

But, they either put up with the negative environmental impact or lose yet another chance at prosperity.

Dave

[hillbilly]

What caused earthquakes before humans invented anything that used oil or gas, coal, etc?

[piece-itpete]

I've lived 2 noticeable earthquakes in NE Ohio, one woke me up in in school suspension in HS, building shaking, and then just a few years ago in my backyard, I was out having a fire reading the paper when my chair suddenly lifted up and back down, very strange. There are many other minor quakes in Ohio.

Not that fracking isn't causing minor quakes. They taught us in school they were studying pumping water into the San Andreas fault to create small minor quakes, to prevent big ones.

Pete

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

What caused earthquakes before humans invented anything that used oil or gas, coal, etc?

The earth is made up of several plates - they are called tectonic plates. At one time (according to the geologists) we were one big continent that has become what we see today by the plates sliding about on the planet's molten core. One plate may be heading north while the other is not moving and so the grind against each other (San Andreas fault).

Other plates may move directly against another plate so one dives under the other - creating a new mountain range.So yes there was a natural cause to earthquakes long before we climbed down out of the trees. That does not mean that man cannot cause quakes buggering about.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I've lived 2 noticeable earthquakes in NE Ohio, one woke me up in in school suspension in HS, building shaking, and then just a few years ago in my backyard, I was out having a fire reading the paper when my chair suddenly lifted up and back down, very strange. There are many other minor quakes in Ohio.

Not that fracking isn't causing minor quakes. They taught us in school they were studying pumping water into the San Andreas fault to create small minor quakes, to prevent big ones.

Pete

I never felt any but I have not been there since 1988.