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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (156017)	9/6/2011 1:23:31 PM
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Fracking ruled out as contributor to East Coast quake By Timothy Puko, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Last updated: 12:11 pm excerpt: For Virginia officials, the conclusive proof that drilling did not cause last month's quake is that no well -- for natural gas extraction or fluid waste -- exists within at least 150 miles of the quake's epicenter. Pressure would have had to cross at least two major thrust faults and several smaller ones to travel from Marcellus shale drilling in the Appalachian Basin and affect the Central Virginia seismic zone in the Piedmont, said David B. Spears, Virginia's state geologist. "There's just no way any kind of drilling or hydrofracturing in those wells could be physically transmitted through the Earth over such a great distance. It's just physically impossible," Spears said. "With eighth-grade physical science you can figure this out. It's just way, way, way too far and completely geologically isolated by multiple barriers." Read more: Fracking ruled out as contributor to East Coast quake - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review pittsburghlive.com ==== Not that people haven't tried to make a connection. Fracking, The DC Earthquake and Unclean Water Obama, Earthquake Is a Wakeup Call on Dirty Energy Standards commondreams.org

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