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Related: About this forumMag 5.3 Texas earthquake yesterday. YAWN. What is interesting, if not amusing, is the reporting
[link:https://weather.com/news/news/2022-11-16-texas-earthquake-el-paso-menton-pecos|]
...quake was centered near the town of Mentone, and was felt as far away as El Paso, about 170 miles to the west, according to the El Paso Times.
Mentone is in Loving County, which in 2021 had a population of 57 people...
Velasco [UT El Paso professor] said the (sic) thinks deep water injections for fracking may have caused the earthquake even though it occurred along a fault line....
There was a previous 5.0 quake in 2020. Velasco went on to say:
"Research had shown that that earthquake in 2020 was likely the result of deep water injection which is a byproduct of fracking, but not fracking itself," Velasco told the station. Right now whats going on is that there is a large volume of water that had been injected in west Texas and that seems to be the root cause of some of these earthquakes in west Texas."
Doublethink and Doublespeak are alive and well here in the Lone Star!
This was the only article I found which actually used the F-word. Certainly, none of the Texas papers did. But note what was so bizarrely stated: the earthquake was "... likely the result of deep water injection which is a byproduct of fracking, but not fracking itself"
Really? Webster's defines fracking as "the injection of fluid into shale beds at high pressure in order to free up petroleum resources"
You might hope that a UT professor would know this? Hook'em Horns!
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Mag 5.3 Texas earthquake yesterday. YAWN. What is interesting, if not amusing, is the reporting (Original Post)
SorellaLaBefana
Nov 2022
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(53,467 posts)1. So does this water that's injected become part of the aquifer?
Can it be recovered for use/drinking/irrigation?
Finishline42
(1,091 posts)2. Hopefully not
Loads of chemicals
From my understanding there are two types of injections:
1) where they are using the water along with sand and chemicals in the active extraction site
2) where they are disposing what was used in the first instance - this is a waste site.