re: 2 Earthquakes just hit in Madison County, MS

Now I found an article about a sinkhole in Oxford.

Welp, I will be looking forward to shorter drives to the coast.

Serious question: Are these small earthquakes (even if they are caused by fracking) safer than waiting for a big one? If you're near a fault line anyway, wouldn't having these occassional 3.0 magnitude quakes be better than letting the pressure build and having a massive 8.5? I'm no geologist, so I'm looking for a serious answer.

According to the comments, the oil and gas industry is in cohorts with the Govt, and are specifically using tracking to set off the New Madrid fault, and Jade Helm is for martial law to be used to relocate people on the I35 corridor so the Keystone pipeline can be laid there

Sounds legit.

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It's not really like that. First off fracing doesn't cost earthquakes, injection/disposal wells do. Tectonic shear isn't really going to be altered by extra fluid in a system. They can lubricate a fault in a way, but in the end, one piece of land wants to be in location and the other piece of land next to it wants to be way far away.

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Well ... not really, but if you feel ok about it I'll allow it.

You see, it all depends on which plates are doing what and at what depths and, well .... you're right about fracking not having any effect. I agree with you on that at least.

Several people have pointed to the huge CO2 well site near the Eaves Mansion as the cause. Being that there is a volcano 2900 feet under the coliseum in Jackson gives Mississippi the distinction of being the only capital city built on a volcano. It also gives the area the largest concentration of underground CO2 in the world. The removal of this gas from underground could be destabilizing all the Yazoo clay in the area. I know back in the winter time several large underground booms were registered near the Flowood/Stack/Richland area and this was apparently caused by underground water freezing and then fracturing with the movement of the clay.

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Well ... not really, but if you feel ok about it I'll allow it. You see, it all depends on which plates are doing what and at what depths and, well .... you're right about fracking not having any effect. I agree with you on that at least.

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Fluid, if it creates enough pressure to create a fracture, is going to initiate the fracture in one way and one way only, perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress. Which plates doing what and at what depths are going to have their faults to be enhanced by that fluid by any significant amount? If the fluid is creating a fracture, it's going to continue along the path of least resistance, dependent on the young's modulus, poisson's ratio, and overburden stress, but even then, the fluid will leak off instantaneously unless surface pressure is working against to replenish the void space.

I'm confused about what I know being wrong. I'm not a geologist, but I am a frac engineer and I have put a lot of fluid in a lot of formations at a lot of depths.

surely more money will fix the problem

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quote: Who knew earthquake snobs existed? Not a snob. I was just pointing out that the two quakes are really a non-event. FYI, they had a thread on a Cal board about a year ago where they were talking about a lightning strike in Napa. It didn't hit anything. It was just one bolt of lightning and then thunder. They were a bit hysterical about it. How do you think this board would respond if they had put that thread on here? The horrors... lighting... only 70 miles from here!!!

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Wth are you talking about?

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Allyn McKeen I was just pointing out that the two quakes are really a non-event.

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Why you try'ta take away our Earthquakes?

What we do to you?

See if we feel sorry for you next time you get runny turds!

Dip shite: half of Arkansas would come with us.