Heard a big boom around 10 am and the building shake.
Went outside to look and nothing.
Went online a little later and found out north of irving had a 3.2 mag earthquake
Seems to be happening one a month for the last few months.
Fracing comes from hydraulic fracturing.........no "k." This is a process that is used in the completion of "some" oil and gas wells. It has been around for about 100 years. The e-quakes are caused by the re-injection of the formation(waste) water that is also produced when the oil or gas is produced. Someone is pumping a lot of water back underground at pretty high pressure and that is causing the quakes. The epicenters of the quakes are about a mile deeper than the gas well production zones. Originally Posted by Papa NoelMan, you use your tongue better than a two dollar whore. Too deep for me - I'm just a dumb country boy. I'm sticking to what Prolongus said cuz fracing (no "k") has been around for only 100 years and fucing (no "k") has been around since Adam and Eve.
Aren't they tremors rather than earthquakes? Don't earthquakes need to be 4.0 and above on the Richter scale? Originally Posted by thathottnurseTHN,
THN,Ya I have a hard time with that middle school level curriculum. Gonna have to go preschool or below. Is there a Mother Goose song about the Richter scale??? I'm almost sure I might could comprehend the jist of that there learnin'....... mmmmhhhhhmmm...yessir.
The Richter Scale is a measure of the amount of energy released in an e-quake at the focus of that movement between the different sides of the fault. Directly above the focus on the surface of the earth is the epicenter. The Richter Scale is exponential. ie a 2.0 Richter Scale e-quake is 10 times more powerful than a 1.0 scale e-quake. A 3.0 e-quake is 10 times as powerful as a 2.0 e-quake and 100 times as powerful as a 1.0 e-quake and so on. Richter Scale value is not dependent upon depth. But damage from a e-quake is heavily dependent upon depth. The shallower the e-quake, the greater the chance of damage.
The United States Geological Society runs/manages the National Earthquake Information Center in Boulder, Colorado. You can do a google search and get the web address for that place. I has a lot of resources to explain e-quakes to the common person. The have a lot of stuff online directed at middle school students. Originally Posted by Papa Noel