This was a good one! Everybody in the cube farm stood up at once to see what was shaking the building. We looked like a bunch of meercats.
Ah. That would explain it. I thought there was a really fat guy on the roof working on an A/C unit or something.
Shook everything in our office on the 3rd floor of the building we work in. Thought it might have been the quarry down the road, but when the wife called from down south about it, it definitely wasn't blasting.
Felt it rural Coweta. Dog even sat up.
(Tapatalk)- on the road.
(Tapatalk)- on the road.
should this thread be merged with main thread?
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Experts: Industry, Not Nature to Blame for Earthquake Increase
July 27, 2015
TULSA, Okla. -
Oklahoma leads the nation in number earthquakes per year, and experts think man, not nature, is to blame.
Several earthquakes hit near Crescent Monday afternoon and into the night. The quakes ranged from 3.2 to 4.5 magnitude. People all over Tulsa reported feeling the shake.
Erica Frith and Jacob Thevenot had just pulled up to the Tulsa Garden Center to see roses when one of the quakes hit just after one Monday afternoon.
"We were sitting in my car and we thought we felt it shake, so we turned it off, and it didn't stop shaking. So we thought, hey, maybe that was an earth quake," said Frith.
Bryan Tapp, Chairman of Geo-Sciences at The University of Tulsa said Oklahoma is on a dangerous trend.
"It's not showing any signs of slowing down," said Tapp.
Tapp said in the past, Oklahoma would average around 50 to 70 earthquakes a year.
"Last year, we had over 5,700 earthquakes," said Tapp. "This year, so far, we've had about 3,300 events."
Seismic activity in Oklahoma has been on the rise since 2010. The reason for the increase is still under debate, but Tapp said a working theory in the scientific community is something called waste water injection. A process used in the oil and gas industry.
Experts think the process has serious affects on faults deep in the ground, and could be a direct link to the quakes.
"All the science to date is pointing towards wast water injection as a probable link," said Tapp.
Now the state is stepping up efforts to get answers. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission, charged with overseeing the state's oil and gas industry, recently announced plans to place 200 more oil and natural gas waste water disposal wells under scrutiny as it investigates whether the companies are to blame.
http://www.ktul.com/story/29645249/experts-industry-not-nature-to-blame-for-earthquake-increase
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Experts: Industry, Not Nature to Blame for Earthquake Increase
July 27, 2015
TULSA, Okla. -
Oklahoma leads the nation in number earthquakes per year, and experts think man, not nature, is to blame.
Several earthquakes hit near Crescent Monday afternoon and into the night. The quakes ranged from 3.2 to 4.5 magnitude. People all over Tulsa reported feeling the shake.
Erica Frith and Jacob Thevenot had just pulled up to the Tulsa Garden Center to see roses when one of the quakes hit just after one Monday afternoon.
"We were sitting in my car and we thought we felt it shake, so we turned it off, and it didn't stop shaking. So we thought, hey, maybe that was an earth quake," said Frith.
Bryan Tapp, Chairman of Geo-Sciences at The University of Tulsa said Oklahoma is on a dangerous trend.
"It's not showing any signs of slowing down," said Tapp.
Tapp said in the past, Oklahoma would average around 50 to 70 earthquakes a year.
"Last year, we had over 5,700 earthquakes," said Tapp. "This year, so far, we've had about 3,300 events."
Seismic activity in Oklahoma has been on the rise since 2010. The reason for the increase is still under debate, but Tapp said a working theory in the scientific community is something called waste water injection. A process used in the oil and gas industry.
Experts think the process has serious affects on faults deep in the ground, and could be a direct link to the quakes.
"All the science to date is pointing towards wast water injection as a probable link," said Tapp.
Now the state is stepping up efforts to get answers. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission, charged with overseeing the state's oil and gas industry, recently announced plans to place 200 more oil and natural gas waste water disposal wells under scrutiny as it investigates whether the companies are to blame.
http://www.ktul.com/story/29645249/experts-industry-not-nature-to-blame-for-earthquake-increase
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