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Assuming you weren't joking, I'm only guessing but the amount of pressure fracking releases is tiny. For example assuming there is pressure for a magnitide 7 ea

Assuming you weren't joking, I'm only guessing but the amount of pressure fracking releases is tiny. For example assuming there is pressure for a magnitide 7 earthquake building up, to stop it you need 1000 level 4 quakes or 10000 level 3 quakes, or 100000 level 2 quakes or a million level 1 quakes. Believe fracking is even below that (and my numbers are probably off)

mokus 7y ago
For the moment magnitude scale, I believe the (typical; it doesn’t actually correspond directly to energy release) ratio is even steeper than that, at around a 32x factor for each point in the scale. So to equal the energy of a 7 you’d need roughly 1 billion magnitude-1 quakes.
jcoffland 7y ago
Then why are people complaining so much about fracking caused earthquakes?
- freeflight 7y ago
  Because having more earthquakes on-top of the natural ones, in addition to all the other negative side-effects like pollution, isn't exactly a great situation for the people affected by it.
  - macintux 7y ago
    Especially when there aren’t natural ones in your area.
- matttproud 7y ago
  If you have seen how hard Oklahoma has bit the dust in recent decades from local and macroeconomic changes, the place doesn't need anything more working against it --- least of all more "make a buck today at the expense of tomorrow." Allowing itself to incur damage to low-value buildings whose owners can barely afford to maintain them sounds like a self-inflicted wound. Even in spite of this recent extraction boom, schools are operating four days a week instead of five. What's going on is resource extraction exploitation with the costs externalized --- plain and simple. It's incomprehensible. That place needs to modernize and adapt but without petroleum and its trappings. It's had 35-50 years to adapt from these changes; why should I believe that petroleum will be this place's saviour again? I grew up with pumpjacks operating down the street (their ambient background sound as natural as the crickets and katydids and cicadas). The smell of petroleum, too. It wasn't until I moved away and returned to see how unnatural this was.
sgustard 7y ago
Oklahoma quakes peaked at over 1000 magnitude 3 quakes in 2015, so you're not that far off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_swarms#/media/File:Cumulative_induced_seismicity.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_sw...

mokus 7y ago

For the moment magnitude scale, I believe the (typical; it doesn’t actually correspond directly to energy release) ratio is even steeper than that, at around a 32x factor for each point in the scale. So to equal the energy of a 7 you’d need roughly 1 billion magnitude-1 quakes.

jcoffland 7y ago

Then why are people complaining so much about fracking caused earthquakes?

freeflight 7y ago
Because having more earthquakes on-top of the natural ones, in addition to all the other negative side-effects like pollution, isn't exactly a great situation for the people affected by it.
- macintux 7y ago
  Especially when there aren’t natural ones in your area.
matttproud 7y ago
If you have seen how hard Oklahoma has bit the dust in recent decades from local and macroeconomic changes, the place doesn't need anything more working against it --- least of all more "make a buck today at the expense of tomorrow." Allowing itself to incur damage to low-value buildings whose owners can barely afford to maintain them sounds like a self-inflicted wound. Even in spite of this recent extraction boom, schools are operating four days a week instead of five. What's going on is resource extraction exploitation with the costs externalized --- plain and simple. It's incomprehensible. That place needs to modernize and adapt but without petroleum and its trappings. It's had 35-50 years to adapt from these changes; why should I believe that petroleum will be this place's saviour again? I grew up with pumpjacks operating down the street (their ambient background sound as natural as the crickets and katydids and cicadas). The smell of petroleum, too. It wasn't until I moved away and returned to see how unnatural this was.

sgustard 7y ago

Oklahoma quakes peaked at over 1000 magnitude 3 quakes in 2015, so you're not that far off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_swarms#/media/File:Cumulative_induced_seismicity.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_sw...