Irish Earthquake???

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Reports in the news here in New Plymouth are blaming fracking in New Zealand, we've fracked all the way through the core seemingly :eek::eek::eek::rolleyes:

Mine was a throw away remark, Cookie Monster..but hahha Good comeback.

Having said that....fracking is being linked in the scientific community (some sectors thereof) to seismic activity.....

The latest evidence comes in the form of an article in the March 26 issue of Geology, a publication of the Geological Society of America.

Entitled "Potentially induced earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA: Links between wastewater injection and the 2011 Mw 5.7 earthquake sequence," the study was coauthored by University of Oklahoma Geophysics Professor Katie Keranen, U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Dr. Elizabeth Cochran and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's seismologist Dr. Heather Savage and Dr. Geoffrey Abers.

The study focused its research on seismic activity in Oklahoma over the past two years and concluded that a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Prague on Nov. 5, 2011, was "induced" by the injection wells. Two subsequent earthquakes, including a 5.7-magnitude "event" the following day, was the biggest in contemporary state history, were caused by the first earthquake and existing tectonic stresses in the earth.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ck-daly/more-scientific-evidence-_b_3009927.html

(It is most likely the re-injection of waste water that causes the seismic pressure - but frackers have yet to find a way to deal with this dangerous by-product).

I was nodding off at that time and I dont remember feeling anything! How disappointing.

LordSutch wrote: »

Welsh Earth tremor more like . . .

I remember the previous one in 1984 that we all felt here on the East coast, and all the talk at the time was about
the "tremor" off the North Wales coast, and the fact that it wasn't a real 'earthquake' due to its deminutive size!

I love how everyone still talks about this earthquake from 1984, shur we'll all be still talking about this mornings one in decades to come too. Just goes to show how interesting our weather is eh?

Pherekydes wrote: »

A crack has opened up in the Irish sea and the water is draining away. :eek:

Ireland and the UK can become one again!

M5 wrote: »

Something woke me at ~4:15 last night too, figured it was Mrs M5 moving and paid no heed. Was noise more than movement. Hell of a coincidence if it was something else. I'm in Kilcock

We are talking about the earthquake, right?
(Kilcock..oh the irony...)

I think I was up at that time, but I was very very drunk so cant say I felt it