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Friggin fracking. We've been having a lot of earthquakes here in Oklahoma. No kidding. I don't remember a single earthquake in 35 years, but over the last five years we seem to have several every month. Nothing major, mind you, but they are becoming increasingly frequent.

 

Holy hell! Twenty-some-odd earthquakes in the last seven days alone.

http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/pages/earthquakes/recent-earthquakes.php

 

 

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Somebody tell me about SC.

 

http://www.popsci.co...-map-shows-risk

I have no Fracking idea

 

 

http://www.scearthquakes.com/

 

http://www.dnr.sc.go.../earthquake.htm

 

In South Carolina, approximately 70 percent of the earthquakes occur in the Coastal Plain and most are clustered around three areas west and north of Charleston: Ravenel-Adams Run-Hollywood, Middleton Place-Summerville, and Bowman. These faults and other geologic structures related to the earthquakes are hidden by the thick sequence of sediments. Therefore, few clues to the causes of earthquakes in the Coastal Plain can be found at the surface. To unmask these hidden geologic structures, geologists are using geophysical techniques, recorded seismic activity (see Figure 9), or both. In the Piedmont, studies of surface geology are beginning to offer important clues to the causes of quakes in South Carolina.

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I am not a geologist, but I stayed @ a Holiday Inn Express...

 

Isn't there a rift in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) ie: pushing apart, hence squeezing @ other places.

 

Does this have something to do with it?

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As long as they stay small, I'm fine with it here.

 

Actually the many "little" ones would be more disconcerting to me. Its the quantity that would make me nervous... Not the individual result of each one.

 

Something always gives. Something is always pushing from a 1/3 of the globe away. Yes, they will stay small for a while. Yet, how does something keep on pushing and something else never reaches its breaking/slipping point. That's impossible. It all adds up and little tremors eventually mean one is on borrowed time (in the slip zone) before the big slip.

 

 

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As long as they stay small, I'm fine with it here.

 

The entire West Coast is part of the Pacific "Ring of FIre." Highly active geologically. I wouldn't bet on things staying small forever.

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The entire West Coast is part of the Pacific "Ring of FIre." Highly active geologically. I wouldn't bet on things staying small forever.

 

LoL... Like small drip from your engine... Don't add anymore oil and in 3 years, KAPOOEY! But you have 3 years of heaven on earth! ;-) ;-)

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The entire West Coast is part of the Pacific "Ring of FIre." Highly active geologically. I wouldn't bet on things staying small forever.

No they won't.

 

I lived through the '89 quake, and eventually we'll have another one like it.

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I have no Fracking idea

 

 

http://www.scearthquakes.com/

 

http://www.dnr.sc.go.../earthquake.htm

 

In South Carolina, approximately 70 percent of the earthquakes occur in the Coastal Plain and most are clustered around three areas west and north of Charleston: Ravenel-Adams Run-Hollywood, Middleton Place-Summerville, and Bowman. These faults and other geologic structures related to the earthquakes are hidden by the thick sequence of sediments. Therefore, few clues to the causes of earthquakes in the Coastal Plain can be found at the surface. To unmask these hidden geologic structures, geologists are using geophysical techniques, recorded seismic activity (see Figure 9), or both. In the Piedmont, studies of surface geology are beginning to offer important clues to the causes of quakes in South Carolina.

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I dont even want to open that link....I know I live on a major fault line...... :(

 

Me too...

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