Several earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma on Thursday

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Several earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma on Thursday

Updated 7:36 pm, Thursday, April 7, 2016

LUTHER, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded several small to moderate earthquakes in Oklahoma, including a magnitude 4.0 quake.

The temblor was recorded at 5:27 p.m. Thursday, 1 mile north of Luther — or 25 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.

. . .

The quake is one of seven recorded since shortly after midnight. The others range in magnitude from 2.7 to 3.6.

The number of magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes has skyrocketed in Oklahoma, from a few dozen in 2012 to more than 900 last year and scientists have linked the increase to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil-and-gas production. State regulators are asking oil and gas companies to reduce their wastewater disposal operations.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Several-earthquakes-recorded-in-Oklahoma-on-7235431.php

[phazed0]

1. Must be all those fault lines under Oklahoma..

[dchill]

2. The New Madrid fault is right there.

When it goes it will be super catastrophic.

[Lochloosa]

3. It's a little east of OK

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4284#.VwcNrv_2bRY

[dchill]

8. Not far enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone#Potential_for_future_earthquakes

Potential for future earthquakes

In a report filed in November 2008, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.[20] The earthquake is expected to also result in many thousands of fatalities, with more than 4,000 of the fatalities expected in Memphis alone.

[cstanleytech]

9. The fact is there actually are a number of faults in Kansas so I think the sarcasm is uncalled

for.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. That is God's punishment for listening to demonic climate change deniers.

Repent.

[DhhD]

5. New 2016 Earthquake Risks Map and Text

Newest Map:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/induced/


2016 One-Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20161035

[jtuck004]

6. The red clay was preferable to this ugly chemical gravy. There's probably not a Choctaw

phrase for this.

[allan01]

7. but. but . but earthquakes are gods work not fracking