Before Planet X, aka Nibiru, entered the inner solar system, California was the only state in the Union synonymous with earthquake activity.  Nowhere in the U.S. were you more likely to experience an earthquake than in the state of California.

Not anymore.

Within only the last few years, residents of Oklahoma and Texas have been jarred by an alarming uptick in seismic activity, ushering in a new landscape of "earthquake country" in the United States.

 

OKLAHOMA

From 1975 to 2008, only a handful of quakes over magnitude 3.0 were recorded in the state of Oklahoma.  That number skyrocketed to over 200 since 2009.  And in 2013 — the state's most seismically active year on record — there were nearly 3,000 quakes in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma's strongest recorded earthquake was a 5.6-magnitude that struck in November 2011 near the town of Prague. It damaged 200 buildings and rattled parts of seven states.

Chad Devereaux cleans up bricks that fell from a home in Sparks, Oklahoma in November 2011 after two earthquakes hit the area in less than 24 hours.

 

In addition to the increase in rumblings often accompanied by loud booms, a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests earthquakes in Oklahoma will not be going away anytime soon.  As a result, the Oklahoma insurance commissioner is urging residents to buy insurance policies that include earthquake coverage while Oklahoma emergency management officials are utilizing earthquake safety manuals that originated in California.

While the USGS is prohibited from divulging the actual cause of this sudden increase in seismicity, aka Nibiru, they instead support the preposterous notion that mining practices involving hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" are at cause.  The USGS is even developing a separate earthquake map for these so-called "man-made" quakes.

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The Zetas clarify:

"Fracking has been a process used extensively for decades, since 1903 within the US alone. If fracking caused earthquakes, has this just been noticed? This is clearly an excuse for the increase in earthquakes, one of many the establishment will latch onto as earthquake frequency increases and earthquakes occur in unusual places.

Where it is known that mining accidents, explosions, can cause buildings in the vicinity to shake and windows to rattle, such activity on the surface does not cause earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by an adjustment in the entire rock strata, over a wide and deep area. The epicenter is merely the point where the adjustment, or movement, is greatest. The pressure that caused that adjustment spreads for hundreds of miles, in all directions. Fracking cannot accomplish this."

ZetaTalk Chat Q&A: December 17, 2011

 

 

 

TEXAS

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is not known as a place that’s prone to earthquakes.

In fact, before 2007, there were no recorded earthquakes in the area. Since then, there have been hundreds.

The majority of the quakes have been less than 3.0 on the Richter Scale, with some as high as magnitude 3.6.

Regardless of magnitude, the reports of deafening booms and property damage speak for themselves.

"It feels like a semi-truck hitting your house with a bomb going off," Greg Morrison said. "I am serious."

"I have cracks in every floor of my house," a woman who lives off Knob Hill Road said. "And I don't mean just cracks going across. They come and meet in the middle."

Even seasoned earthquake veterans from California said the quakes in recent months are different than anything they felt before.

Now, even North Texas residents are considering earthquake insurance.

 

Town Hall Meeting

Offered only the fracking explanation for dozens of recent earthquakes in the area, Azle residents voiced their frustration at the oil and gas industry at a recent town hall meeting.

More than 800 North Texas residents showed up on Thursday, January 2, demanding answers from the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the local oil and gas industry.

Many of the attendees described the damage to their properties, from cracked walls, to shifting foundations and driveways, to shattered mirrors.

Others described their fear of stronger seismic activity to come, the fear of what the shifting ground could do to a gas line, the fear of sinkholes and contamination of the groundwater supply.

The mood soured when Commissioner David Porter announced that he would not be answering questions.  There was booing and hooting.

‘Something is going on. Stop drilling and see what happens,’ said Victoria Ball of Azle, a recommendation that drew applause and cheers from the audience.

Reno Mayor Lynda Stokes and others pleaded with state regulators to stop the injection wells, at least for a few months, to see if the earthquakes stop.  Residents come to Stokes asking questions but not even Reno City Hall is immune as there's a big crack in the council chambers.

"I don't have any answers for them," she said. "The only power the city has is not to issue any more permits."

 

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"The primary drama preceding the pole shift will be the ripping action that a plate unable to move must endure. The notable area of catastrophe during this is the eastern half of the continental US. From Houston to Chicago to New England, the diagonal pull will tear the underpinning of cities and create a catastrophe for the US that will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial."

ZetaTalk: N. American Rip - February 10, 2006

 

 

 

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Comment by John Smith on April 6, 2014 at 4:38am

Oklahoma Already Surpassing 2013's Record Number of Quakes (Apr 5)

Austin Holland, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey said earthquake activity in Oklahoma is soaring.

"We have had almost as many magnitude 3 and greater already in 2014 than we did for all of 2013," Holland said.

Last year's number of "felt" earthquakes - those strong enough to rattle items on a shelf - hit a record 222 in the state. This year, less than four months into the year, the state has recorded 253 such tremors, according to state seismic data.

Source

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/05/us-usa-earthquakes-oklaho...

Comment by Howard on March 15, 2014 at 7:22pm

Quake Uptick in Kansas Prompts Surge in Earthquake Insurance Policies (Mar 15)

Just this past week there have been several earthquakes felt in south-central Kansas. Many insurance companies are reporting a surge in the number of people buying policies.

Phillip Hill purchased earthquake insurance policies for all three of his businesses.  Wednesday, he purchased one for his home after several small earthquakes in Harper County.

"You know you gotta have something to fall back on, if it happens and you don't have earthquake insurance, where would you be?" he said.

Local insurance companies like American Family Insurance and State Farm Insurance say their agents have seen an uptick in the number of people asking about those policies.

"Just a couple of years ago when people saw that was an endorsement, they laughed about it, but it's actually just picked up in the last year or two since we've started having earthquakes," said Wes Higgs, American Family Insurance agent.

State Farm says about 12 percent of its clients purchased the option with their homeowner's insurance, and coverage has doubled in neighboring states like Oklahoma and Missouri.

At American Family, Higgs says he too has seen an increase:  About 1 in 10  homeowners now have the earthquake coverage.

Since Wednesday's earthquake, he's written 3 more policies.

Hill says everyone should take these earthquakes seriously.

Insurance companies noted there is a 30-day moratorium on writing policies after an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale.

The highest reported earthquake in Harper County this week measured 3.4.

Source

http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/shakes-prompt-surge-in-earthqua...

Comment by Howard on February 20, 2014 at 8:34pm

Over 100 Quakes in Oklahoma in 24 Hours (Feb 17)
Seismologists at the Oklahoma Geological Survey say in the last 24 hours, there have been been over a hundred quakes.

One neighborhood in Guthrie had nearly three dozen quakes---centered in one location.

Penny Murphy—whose house sits on the epicenter of one of the quakes---says she's a little uneasy.

"It's too close for comfort," she says.

She's lived just outside Guthrie for 22 years, and just recently started feeling the phenomenon.

"Last weekend, we had one big boom, where my husband thought someone actually hit the house or something, that was the first time we really had a big one until this weekend," Murphy said.

Murphy says this weekend's quakes were a first. Her house sits in the center of about 30 medium-sized quakes that hit, all in this neighborhood.

Penny Murphy says she's a hearty Oklahoman: she's been through fires, floods, tornadoes… and now earthquakes.

"You live where you live and you have to take the elements with it. I just never thought in Oklahoma an earthquake would be added to that," she said.

Source

http://www.okcfox.com/story/24747561/hundreds-of-earthquakes-in-24-...

Comment by Howard on February 2, 2014 at 7:43pm

13 Quakes in One Week Across Texas & Oklahoma (Jan 30)
Overall the activity has seen an up tick over the past week with 13 temblors through Oklahoma and Texas. None of the quakes have had a magnitude over 3.9.  Most quakes have been in the 2.5-3.5 magnitude range.

The geographic area of the earthquakes have been centered around the metropolitan Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area.  However a few quakes have happened around the Dallas-Fort Worth area and just off the Caprock near Snyder.

Sources

http://www.texomashomepage.com/story/d/story/13-quakes-in-one-week-...

USGS Quake Map

Comment by Howard on January 23, 2014 at 4:37am

In a stalemate of lies, Texas oil & gas regulators refuse to suspend fracking operations despite demands from infuriated residents that continue to sustain quake damage.

STS no-brainer:

1.  Suspend fracking, quakes still continue, no more fracking excuse, loss of revenue. 

2.  Continue fracking, quakes still continue, fracking excuse remains, no loss of revenue.

Angry North Texans Demand State Shut Down Wells Linked to Earthquakes (Jan 22)

Dozens of residents and local officials from the towns of Azle, Reno and Springtown outside of Fort Worth bused down to Austin Tuesday to speak before state regulators about a swarm of recent earthquakes believed to be tied to the oil and gas industry. They had plenty of questions for the Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulator, but the commission had few answers.

While the quakes have been relatively small, not big enough to cause major damage, there’s been a lot of them. They’ve caused cracks in homes, sinkholes and many rude awakenings.

“The quakes started recently, and I didn’t think much about it until I was asleep at midnight,” testified Springtown resident Phil Doss. “It woke me up. I thought a 747 had landed on my roof. It was that bad.”

Springtown is one of several towns in Texas that saw a sudden onset of quakes over the last few years. No earthquakes struck the Dallas-Fort Worth region before 2007, according to records from the United States Geological Survey. There have been more than a hundred since.

“You just don’t know when they are gonna happen again,” Reno resident Barbara Brown tells StateImpact Texas. “I rigged up a little thing to show me whenever we have tremors, and we have them three to five times any given day.”

Until recently, the Railroad Commission of Texas has maintained that the link between quakes and oil and gas wastewater disposal are purely hypothetical, despite several studies and instances of similar disposal well-related quake swarms in other states like Arkansas, Ohio and Oklahoma. But after the latest swarm in Azle and Reno, residents have formed a vocal opposition to the disposal wells and quakes, catching the attention of both regulators and state lawmakers.

Tuesday, resident after resident, along with local officials, called on the commission to issue an immediate moratorium on oil and gas wastewater disposal in the area until there are more answers on what’s causing the quakes.

The commission, however, maintains that it doesn’t have the authority to do so and needs more time to study the issue. But that was little comfort to Linda Stokes, the mayor of Reno, a town of about 2,500 people that has been at the center of many of the quakes.

“While you’re doing your studies, I would like to ask you to shut these wells down,” Stokes testified before the commission. “And not make the citizens of Reno and Azle the guinea pigs for the study.”

People testified Tuesday that they were concerned about the safety of nearby dams and spillways, the integrity of oil and gas wells that could pollute water resources, and the impact the quakes are having on property values. Stokes says residents can’t afford the repairs needed in their homes. “There’s no insurance, there’s no way to fix the damages that these earthquakes have caused unless it’s out of pocket,” Stokes says.

The commission’s head lawyer maintained Tuesday that damaged buildings and cracked foundations do not fall under their jurisdiction. The state’s rules only deal with protecting mineral formations and freshwater, testified Lindil Fowler, general counsel for the commission.*

To shut down a disposal well, the company would have to violate its permits from the commission, permits which do not have any regulations for seismic activity. New rules could change that, but it would take time. Last week, state lawmakers announced they’re forming a committee to look into the quakes and see if changes to the rules are necessary.

In the meantime, the commission’s efforts to research the correlation between fracking and the quakes are moving at a glacial speed, Mayor Stokes says.

“I can come down here, and I can plead [the residents] case to the commissioners, but all in all, it falls directly in their lap,” Stokes tells StateImpact Texas. “And as I saw here today, I don’t really expect to see too much out of it, yet.”

Barry Smitherman, chairman of the Railroad Commission, is running for Attorney General in the upcoming election.

“Do you think they’re going to put out a report before those elections come out?” Parker Democratic Chair Penny McCool says. “I highly doubt it.”

Source

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2014/01/22/angry-north-texans-dema...

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