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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852369)	4/26/2015 11:34:53 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1576360

The Texas Railroad Commission said Friday that it was considering shutting down two wastewater disposal wells in North Texas’ Barnett Shale after they were linked to seismic activity in the area: dallasnews.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852369)	4/26/2015 1:10:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576360

Reawakened’ faults could trigger big Okla. earthquakes They’ve been asleep since before the dinosaurs roamed Earth and now we’re waking them up. Long-dormant, 300-million-year-old fault lines across Oklahoma are being “reawakened” by recent small earthquakes that have been previously linked to the fracking process, scientists reported in a new study out this week. The faults could trigger much higher-magnitude and more destructive quakes than most of the smaller ones that have plagued the state in recently. Yeah, wait til they have a quake > than 6. OK, you haven't lived until you've gone thru a 6.9 quake. And God forbid some of these fault lines are fairly close to the surface, some of OKC's big towers may come tumbling down.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852369)	4/26/2015 1:17:49 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576360

>> Long-dormant, 300-million-year-old fault lines across Oklahoma are being “reawakened” by recent small earthquakes that have been previously linked to the fracking process, scientists reported in a new study out this week. I say we dispense with calling vibrations smaller than those of a delivery truck driving by outside "earthquakes". Let's call those something else. Even though, technically, they are earthquakes, so would, for example, be a small quantity of some explosive being detonated. But they're not earthquakes. They are minuscule, insignificant vibrations in the ground.