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“The Oklahoma Geological Survey has said it is likely that many recent earthquakes in the state have been triggered by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations.”

Go ahead and just shout it: “Fracking!” Can they not say that, a la Florida with global warming? Inhofe rule?

We need a new term for these quakes, Frackquakes.

A 4.5 earthquake east of the Rockies is a sizable earthquake. I’m sure there were a lot of people in Oklahoma City (50 miles away) whose nerves are a little frayed.

Fraking…thats my term

It’s just the rapture.

More leftist lies. Oklahoma was standing still. The rest of the universe was trembling.

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — A series of small earthquakes have been recorded across northern Oklahoma following two moderate earthquakes in the area on Saturday.

Oh no, it’s not because they took down the Ten Commandments monument, is it?

It happens.

There are earthquakes in Oklahoma almost every day. These were bigger than usual.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

There have been a lot of frackquakes during the last few years, but 4.4 is more that the average water injection quake. New Madrid had a quake last year. In 1811 and 1812 there were serious earthquakes in the New Madrid fault zone. Wonder if that fault zone is getting ready for a big quake.

Drill baby drill…oh, and cause a lot of underground, structure breaking explosions.

I vote for “frackquakes”.

While I like the elegant parsimony of “fraking”, it doesn’t convey the point that’s being made nearly as well as “frackquacks” does. There’s no way for the listener to immediately hear the term “frackquakes” as anything except “earthquakes caused by oil company fracking.”

“Serious earthquakes” in 1811 and 1812 along the New Madrid fault? “Serious”?

Hell, the biggest of those quakes temporarily made the Mississippi River run backwards for a couple of days and permanently changed the course of the Mississippi into what had previously been the course of a completely different smaller river.

There was a quake along the New Madrid just a couple of years ago that I felt in my bed in Chicago one night.

I think the NRA has the right approach here. In order to prevent future earthquakes in Oklahoma, we need more fracking.

The biggest of those New Madrid quakes caused chimneys to fall off of houses in Cincinnati…which isn’t exactly in the neighborhood.

How would you describe the most powerful earthquakes in recorded American history?

Thats what its called when AFLAC pays your earthquake claim in OK.

3 earthquakes in the neighborhood of 8.0 in a year. That would be insane if it happened now. Earthquakes are measured on a logarithmic scale so every number you go up I think doubles the energy of the quake.