New Years Day Oklahoma Earthquake
 

Hey Jerry,
You guys and gals in Edmond must have been partying hard bringing in the new year to have triggered that 4.2 magnitude quake. Hope you are Ok and everything in the LT5 store stayed on the shelves.

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Yep! We're Rockin' & Rollin' here. The 4.3 set off the house alarm at 5:39AM & woke us right up. A stack of cooling fan/shroud assys fell over in the shop but not off the top shelf they were on, so no damage. We have had 4 quakes greater than 3.2 with epicenters within a few miles of the house, all just in the last week.

Oklahoma has had: (M1.5 or greater)
6 earthquakes today
45 earthquakes in the past 7 days
157 earthquakes in the past month
2,179 earthquakes in the past year

The largest earthquake in Oklahoma
today: 3.2 in Perry, Oklahoma
this week: 4.3 in Edmond, Oklahoma:cheers: Our Location
this month: 4.3 in Fairview, Oklahoma
this year: 4.7 in Cherokee, Oklahoma

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Wow!! That's really scary! Living there must be something like always living on the edge. Glad to know, though, that you, the family, the cars and the parts in the shop are safe. Would you ever consider moving here to Charlotte, NC? Just kidding, of course.

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Wow! Be safe Jerry!

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Fracking is causing your Quakes :cheers:

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The fracking process is not new.

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Jerry is this the norm for your area?

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Fracking and Oklahoma Earthquakes

North Dakota Fracking is slowing down (or not speeding up as fast) due to oil prices hitting the skids. I am sure we will start seeing earthquakes in South Dakota.

North Dakota Fracking

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Fracing has been used since the 50's. Blaming the majority of this activity on fracing & saltwater disposal wells is ridiculous. Oklahoma law prohibits disposal well injection pressures above the formation frac gradient. In my locale, there are hardly any oil or gas wells and most did not require frac stimulation, were drilled decades ago and at depths well under 2km. Hardly to blame for local earthquakes. Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes occur at depth of 3~7km+ deep.

Most people tend to think of their lifetime as a substantial period of time & therefore relevant to the frequency of earthquakes. Surprise, a human lifetime of 75 years is completely insignificant to geological time. The last major tectonic activity in Oklahoma & Kansas ocurred during the Mississippian age about 350,000,000 years ago, or roughly 5,000,000 lifetimes ago. What we are experiencing, in my opinion, is a period of adjustment for accumulated stresses. One fault shifts a little & relieves pressure on an adjacent fault, so it moves a little, etc. This is not a bad thing. If those stresses are not relieved in small movements, they build up into major movement. That's bad.

It's turned into a chicken little, "the sky is falling" scenario. Earthquake insurance is now offered as a rider. Pay the extra premium, along with a large deductible, and you can be protected against major earthquake damage. Whoa, not so fast!! That's only if it's not man-made or a result of oil & gas activity or disposal. SO they take your premium payment & shout fracing & disposal are responsible and refuse to pay your claim. SO, now the burden falls to the consumer to sue & prove that it was a natural ocurrence. An expensive case to try with lots of expert witnesses & no definitive answer, just lots of opinions. BS!:censored:

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Only periodically, and then only during the last 3~4 years.