Comments on: UPDATED: How Humans Cause Earthquakes

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:42:59 +0000

I keep wondering if our building codes will need to change all over the world to now build to an earthquake code. This will increase the cost of construction not to mention embodied energy of extra steel and concrete. I am sure this use of energy would outweigh the energy obtained from this method of extraction.

By: All Shook Up

All Shook Up — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:14:35 +0000

JAS – You don’t have to take the author’s word for it. Deep injection wells to have been linked with a marked increase of earthquakes in several states, including Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, and West Virginia. When use of the wells stopped, so did the unusual earthquakes. Put Google to work and you can read about it yourself.

By: JAS

JAS — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:56:02 +0000

Interesting article – wish there was some data so we can evaluate the issues of correlation and causation. As it is, we are left with the author saying “trust me.” I prefer “trust but verify.”

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:36:02 +0000

http://www.straterra.co.nz/Chemical%20additives – site about fracking in NZ from a trying to sell it as good point of view… but gives information on chemicals used. Fracking is under discussion in NZ due to overseas companies wanting to come here and do it and locals worried about water contamination/earthquakes etc

By: Unfortunate truth

Unfortunate truth — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:44:59 +0000

You won’t be able to find a list of the chemicals in the fracking fluid. If my memory serves me correctly Dick Cheney (when he was Vice President) helped push through some bill that allowed companies not to disclose what exactly is in the fracking fluids.

By: Mary Briggs

Mary Briggs — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:32:22 +0000

It’s funny really. We are the smartest of all animals and yet we do not think of things like this. We do not think of smaller animals, insects, birds. They are wild but live in the cities. They must eat, but we give no thought to that. Not as a community, city, nor state. Even though their health is linked to our own. We are sooo smart.

By: Mango Punch

Mango Punch — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:10:17 +0000

To what extent could human caused earthquakes actually be a good thing, relieving built up pressure and preventing larger more damaging earthquakes later?

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:56:19 +0000

What are the chemicals in the Fracking fluid? I would like to read a list.

Since I will be drinking them in the near future, I would like the corporation (s) who are injecting them into our water tables to tell me what those chemicals are.

Is that asking too much?

thank you.

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:50:55 +0000

what are the chemicals in the tracking fluid? I would like ti read a list of the names of the chemicals.

Thank you.

david

By: radrob

radrob — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:25:31 +0000

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EZtJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jQwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,2288696&dq=earthquakes+in+denver&hl=en

The nice thing about google news is that you can look up past events pretty easily to research your piece. Earthquakes from disposal wells are not new. There’s a planned one happening in Oregon for geothermal.
The link above is from a famously referenced series of quakes that happened in Denver