Maybe if we stopped lubricating those plates with water under pressure?
Is the water going far enough down to lubricate the plates? If that is the case, we need to inject more water to make those plate movements smoother and thusly less 'quakey' and less damaging. Undeniably, the tectonic force moving those plates is unstoppable. Solar and lunar gravitational forces are constantly flexing the planet, stresses build, the plates crumble, shear, and override each other with violent action relative to our miniscule human scale.
If you believe the water injection is lubricating the plates along the fault lines, maybe our relatively miniscule lubrication of the plates is helping to ease the built up stresses by relieving the stress in small increments instead of one humongous magnitude 9.5 or some such that our progeny might suffer in the near future. Think of the children, I beg you, and allow our faults to slip and slide gracefully instead of violently in one fell swoop and wipe out half of our state.
If we have that much control over the tectonic plates, it is our duty, our calling, our responsibility to our posterity(and just as likely for ourselves) to get it done.
It's like the forests. When we don't do controlled burns to clear out the underbrush, we end up with major and uncontrollable forest fires. It's time to lubricate the faults and save the planet.
If the water doesn't go that far down, we're doomed.
Woody
You mean you don't know?
Maybe you should spend more time reading on the subject and less time arguing on internet gun forums.
You tell me. If the waste water could reach the faults, it would support your theory. The deepest waste water well I've heard of in Oklahoma only goes down around 6,000 feet - about 1.14 miles, and the faults range from 2-1/2 to 4 miles deep.
If I were you, I'd drill down to a fault near an injection well and see if there is any waste water in the fault before I stated that waste water is lubricating the plates.
Woody
Did anyone else just feel that?
Yep. Here in north Edmond. I've lost count of the quakes over the last 2 weeks.
So have I. They really don't bother me though, so long as nothing breaks...
And there go a couple more...
Dang, that shook for a while.
