Kansas' 4.8-magnitude earthquake, felt in Omaha area, likely to spur debate about energy extraction

[Omaha Steve]

X post energy environment

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/kansas--magnitude-earthquake-felt-in-omaha-area-likely-to/article_4b96a2cf-2788-58ec-b024-c6c982a55cbe.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014 7:15 PM
By Nancy Gaarder / World-Herald staff writer

A southern Kansas earthquake felt as far north as Omaha is likely to add to the debate about the relationship between earthquakes and energy extraction.

Wednesday’s quake, with a magnitude of 4.8, was the strongest of the hundreds to have occurred in the Oklahoma area in the last 11 months, said Dale Grant, a geophysicist with the USGS. Oklahoma has seen a sharp jump in earthquakes with the explosive growth in well drilling commonly referred to as fracking. Kansas, too, has seen a jump. The location of this quake was just north of the Oklahoma-Kansas border.




“Oklahoma has become the new California,” Grant said. “We’ve recorded more magnitude 3 and greater earthquakes in Oklahoma in the last couple of years than we have in California, which is unprecedented.”

The earthquake occurred at 3:40 p.m. and by late afternoon , the USGS had received more than 4,500 reports across 11 states by people who had felt it. Among those were more than three-dozen reports from people in Omaha, Bellevue, Lincoln and Peru, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs and Glenwood, Iowa. The USGS encourages citizen reports via a “Did You Feel It?” website.

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[still_one]

1. I doubt it will in those states

[Odin2005]

2. I am dreading us getting frack-quakes here in Fargo.

[brooklynite]

3. No, clearly God's wrath about the Gay Marriage ruling...

[crazylikafox]

4. It's all Obama's fault, silly

[Zorra]

5. Not an earthquake. It was all those heads exploding in Westboro

after SCOTUS let them know that same sex marriage in Kansas is all part of the Great Spirit's plan to teach them how to respect and love people who are different from them.

This has been a public service message from the friends of Dorothy.

[marions ghost]

6. check out this map

http://articlechase.com/beyondnews/showthread.php?tid=8860

[marions ghost]

7. And compare it with this map:

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. Either God is punishing Kansas for re-electing Brownhole & Roberts,

or it's Obama's fault.