Fracking Earthquakes 2020 (Wichita, Washington, Weir: appointed, 2014, house)

[leighland]

Anyone having a terrible time / damage from the Fracking? My family just repointed their fireplace and its been more than 5 quakes per day in the past week

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by leighland

Anyone having a terrible time / damage from the Fracking? My family just repointed their fireplace and its been more than 5 quakes per day in the past week

That's what happens with non-existent regulations, oil companies do whatever they want. Oklahoma has more large-scale operations in terms of quantity, with far more problems.

[WoundedSpirit]

I felt an earthquake last night here in southeast Kansas. I haven't felt one since I left California more than 50 years ago.

[countrylv22]

Oh, my goodness Earthquakes in Kansas?? I thought you had to worry about tornadoes, but earthquakes?? What is up with that???

I'm sorry that you had one last night Hope it does not happen again. What a way to end the year, right? Best of wishes!

Originally Posted by WoundedSpirit

I felt an earthquake last night here in southeast Kansas. I haven't felt one since I left California more than 50 years ago.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 to ALL reading this!!!!

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by WoundedSpirit

I felt an earthquake last night here in southeast Kansas. I haven't felt one since I left California more than 50 years ago.

Goes with the territory, you want few regulations, you get earthquakes. Energy companies aren't going to compensate businesses and residents for any future structural damages to buildings.

[CrownVic95]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Goes with the territory, you want few regulations, you get earthquakes. Energy companies aren't going to compensate businesses and residents for any future structural damages to buildings.

Even in Kansas, many earthquakes have nothing to do with regulations or lack thereof. According to the report linked below,

Rick Miller, a senior scientist with the Kansas Geological Survey, said the area has a history of low-intensity earthquakes dating as far back as 1919. The affected region is along the western edge of the Nemaha Ridge, an “underground mountain” with several faults

But Miller said there is no evidence to suggest the recent Wichita-area earthquakes had anything to do with fracking or wastewater disposal practices.
“That is just not the case here,” he said. “This is a natural sequence and not a direct impact from any nearby injector.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...weeks-74635149

No endeavor in life is 100% risk free or sans any disadvantages whatsoever. That oil is our life's blood....and without it we are cavemen. The trade-off we make here is minimal for gargantuan gain.

[leighland]

Originally Posted by CrownVic95

Even in Kansas, many earthquakes have nothing to do with regulations or lack thereof. According to the report linked below,
[URL]https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wichita-area-feels-low-intensity-earthquakes-weeks-74635149[/URL]

No endeavor in life is 100% risk free or sans any disadvantages whatsoever. That oil is our life's blood....and without it we are cavemen. The trade-off we make here is minimal for gargantuan gain.

WOW! I thought they were all due to the Oklahoma Fracking. Geez.
What weird is Im unaware of a fault in Wichita.
I do know the ogallala aquifer is under and being drained fast.
Maybe these quakes are due to the spring water being drained rapidly?
Weird.

to be fair the biggest earthquake I have ever experienced was in Washington DC and I lived in SoCal for almost a decade

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by CrownVic95

Even in Kansas, many earthquakes have nothing to do with regulations or lack thereof. According to the report linked below,
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...weeks-74635149

No endeavor in life is 100% risk free or sans any disadvantages whatsoever. That oil is our life's blood....and without it we are cavemen. The trade-off we make here is minimal for gargantuan gain.

I doubt people will take one individuals word for it regarding it if it hasn't been reviewed by others, as the amount of earthquakes has certainly exponentially increased since fracking have become very common:

"Earthquakes have increased in Kansas since 2013 when fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, became more common for oil and gas exploration. Some researchers believe injection of wastewater from the explorations into underground wells contributes to the quakes.

Those quakes, centered in southern and central Kansas, have caused damage and prompted investigations into the fracking and wastewater injection.

But Miller said there is no evidence to suggest the recent Wichita-area earthquakes had anything to do with fracking or wastewater disposal practices.

“That is just not the case here,” he said. “This is a natural sequence and not a direct impact from any nearby injector.”

More needs to be looked into regarding further depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and increases in earthquakes, water tables are rapidly declining in most of the SW portion of Kansas, and the cost to drill new wells is six figures per well in many cases. Guess the farmers profited for a few decades by growing crops suited for humid areas of the country when it should have been dry land farming and ranching the entire time anyway. New restrictions on irrigation have now been imposed over the last 5-10 years across a larger geographical area of the state as a result.

[KSinmyrearviewmirror]

Brownback appoints panel to study recent earthquakes, fracking waste

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Calling it a “matter of public safety,” Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a committee to study whether oil and gas activity is behind the recent spate of minor earthquakes in Kansas.

Expansion of the oil and gas recovery method known as “fracking” has coincided with a series of small quakes in areas that had long been seismically stable. Fracking doesn’t appear to cause the problem, but an increase in oil and gas production and disposal of waste fluids associated with fracking could be behind the recent temblors that have shaken south-central Kansas and northern Oklahoma, scientists said Monday.

“It’s not the fracking itself, it’s this re-injection of the fluids into formations that are considered safe to hold it,” said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. “It’s waste disposal.”

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article1...#storylink=cpy

One member of the Gov's panel was Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey. Buchanan went on to be appointed director of KGS.

Gov Brownback quickly backtracked before members of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, stating prior to the panel's assessment, that THE EARTHQUAKES ARE NOT RELATED TO FRACKING.

The last barrel of oil pumped out of Kansas will be the most valuable barrel ever pumped. Why not reserve it all until then? The Martians will show us how to do it without any further environmental degradation.

[ketchikanite]

Originally Posted by leighland

Anyone having a terrible time / damage from the Fracking? My family just repointed their fireplace and its been more than 5 quakes per day in the past week

How do you know it’s from fracing? With the downturn in oil most production companies quit drilling. Probably an earthquake caused by a wastewater injection well. I’ve had 4 wells drilled within a 1/2 of a mile of our house last year. All of them were fraced. None caused earthquakes but you could definitely feel a low rumble at the height of the fracing operations. There was a wastewater injection about 5 miles north that did cause a number of earthquakes in our area. After hundreds of complaints state regulators stepped in and shut it down. Just food for thought.