Nine Earthquakes Rock North Texas In Less Than A Day

[Cyrus]

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This is extremely unusual for the DFW area. Some believe water injection wells

may be the cause of this unprecedented earthquake swarm.

Not mentioned in this report... but it was reported on local news today...

twin 3.5 mag earthquakes hit less than an hour apart... one in Irving [Dallas suburb]

the other about 250 miles west of Irving near Snyder, Texas.

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Nine Earthquakes Rock North Texas In Less Than A Day

UPDATED | January 7, 2015 1:40 AM

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Nine earthquakes, three of them with a 3-point magnitude or greater,

rocked North Texas Tuesday into early Wednesday, knocking items off walls, causing cracks to appear

in ceilings and generally shattering nerves across the region.

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Here’s a list of the quakes in order of when they happened:

7:37 a.m. 2.3 magnitude

3:10 p.m. 3.5 magnitude

6:52 p.m. 3.6 magnitude

8:11 p.m. 2.9 magnitude

8:12 p.m. 2.7 magnitude

9:54 p.m. 1.7 magnitude

10:05 p.m. 2.4 magnitude

11:02 PM 1.6 magnitude

12:59 AM 3.1 magnitude

Entire news article at link

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/01/06/possible-earthquake-felt-across-metroplex/

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[Guest]

My daughter lives in Irving. No fun.

[other one]

We've had 14 today already in Oklahoma that are above 2.0.

 

Yesterday we had 24.

 

day before yesterday we had 16

 

 

Get used to it.

[Cyrus]

We've had 14 today already in Oklahoma that are above 2.0.

Yesterday we had 24.

day before yesterday we had 16

Get used to it.

Some believe the huge 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes may have been

triggered by smaller earthquakes outside of the New Madrid rift area.

The ancient Ouachita rift travels across Texas, southern Oklahoma, Arkansas...

the southern border of the "Reelfoot" New Madrid rift... to the Appalachians.

God knows what earthquakes along that Ouachita rift system might forebode,

especially when men mess with it [oil/gas drilling, fracking, water injection wells, etc..]

http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/sites/default/files/2011Nov-fig-1.jpg

Balcones Fault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcones_Fault

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Edited January 7, 2015 by Cyrus

[Guest]

Praying~!

[other one]

my sister lives in Hot Springs Village over in Arkansas....   North East of them a few years ago they started having quakes of this same nature and it started not too long after they used some deep wells to pump fracking water down into those wells.   They finally got tired of the quakes and stopped the company from using the disposal wells and the quakes stopped.

 

We had a 5.6 quake not too long after that, and that got our attention and we started to watch the smaller quakes.   there were quite  a few seismograph monitors set up after that big one and we have watched since.   it started that most of them were larger than a 1.0 but smaller than a 2.0.    Now they are almost all over 2.0 and occasionally in the upper 3's.     It would be interesting to know of they are using new injection wells in the formations around Dallas.   What bothers me is that we have a deep injection well within three miles of our house now and it's been running for about a year.   We haven't been having the quakes really close to the house.    That original 5.6 was about 15 miles north of us.

 

 

If this is all natural and the fracking and injection wells are not causing the problem with them, then I'd say that something is getting to get out of hand.

[Cyrus]

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Local Dallas TV news just reported there have now been 12 earthquakes in Irving.

Irving ISD schools are now conducting earthquake drills... and Dallas ISD will also

start earthquake preparedness. Let me emphasize... this area is NOT earthquake

prone. Local news has reported the Irving swarm... and previous recent swarms

in the North Texas area... may be related to oil/gas waste water injection wells..

although nothing was said about injection wells in Irving... which is part of the

huge DFW city metroplex... with many high rise buildings in the area.

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[Cyrus]

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FYI

The ongoing earthquake swarm in Irving, is very close to the old Dallas Cowboy Texas stadium.

" The stadium was demolished by a controlled implosion on April 11, 2010. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Stadium

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[Cyrus]

my sister lives in Hot Springs Village over in Arkansas.... North East of them a few years ago they started having quakes of this same nature and it started not too long after they used some deep wells to pump fracking water down into those wells. They finally got tired of the quakes and stopped the company from using the disposal wells and the quakes stopped.

We had a 5.6 quake not too long after that, and that got our attention and we started to watch the smaller quakes. there were quite a few seismograph monitors set up after that big one and we have watched since. it started that most of them were larger than a 1.0 but smaller than a 2.0. Now they are almost all over 2.0 and occasionally in the upper 3's. It would be interesting to know of they are using new injection wells in the formations around Dallas. What bothers me is that we have a deep injection well within three miles of our house now and it's been running for about a year. We haven't been having the quakes really close to the house. That original 5.6 was about 15 miles north of us.

If this is all natural and the fracking and injection wells are not causing the problem with them, then I'd say that something is getting to get out of hand.

About a year ago there was an unusual earthquake swarm northwest of Irving.

It was also thought to be related to fracking and water injection wells because

it is an area covered with oil and gas drilling. After high powered fracking and

water injection was banned in that area, the earthquake swarm stopped.

The odd thing about the earthquake swarm in Irving... it is in the middle of the

huge DFW city metroplex. Hopefully there is no fracking and/or water injection

happening in such an urban area.

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[Cyrus]

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12 Irving earthquakes as of yesterday... two more earthquakes today.

Here is interesting info from Dallas CBS affiliate:

" IRVING (CBS 11 NEWS) –

The big questions about the quakes — why and why now?

Some say it may have to do with the land under the old Texas Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys once played.

“They [earthquakes] can happen anywhere at any time,” explained Dr. Len Kubicek, a geology professor at nearby

North Lake College. He says the old Texas Stadium site is directly over the Balcones Fault, which runs from Irving

to San Antonio, paralleling Interstate-35.

Kubicek says natural forces are tugging on the fault from high in the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico.

“If you start pulling on this and stretching it, in this case you’re going to get two normal faults,” he said, using

wooden blocks to demonstrate the action. “The Balcones Fault was actually one of these, that type of fault,

and it’s due to stretching.”

But it hasn’t moved in 100-million years. So why now? One theory, according to Dr. Kubicek, was imploding

Texas Stadium. He says it could have forced a release of stress energy.

More at link

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/01/07/questions-for-texas-earthquake-scientists-why-why-now/

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