The New Earthquake Country
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.
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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Oklahoma Insurance Companies Offering Higher Deductibles at Lower Monthly Rates for Catastrophic Damage (Jul 29)
As earthquakes continue to shake much of Oklahoma, changes are being made in how earthquake insurance is being handled.
More companies are writing it in Oklahoma, and they're adding coverage to include quakes that could be tied to oil production, which wasn’t always the case.
Before, people could have been left in the position of proving the damage was caused by a naturally-occurring quake because man-made quakes weren't covered. Now, some new policies are covering earthquakes no matter what the cause.
The two larger than usual earthquakes Monday got an immediate reaction from the oil industry and state regulators as three wastewater injection wells were shut down or throttled back, near the epicenter at Crescent.
But the shaking - which was felt in several states - created only slightly more interest in earthquake insurance, outside the immediate area, according to insurance agents.
Though some homeowners in Tulsa reported damage, it wasn't even close to rising to the level that earthquake insurance would cover, according to Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner, John Doak.
He said, "Earthquake insurance is catastrophic coverage. You really want it if the home comes down, or the fascia comes off; it's not for small cracks."
A high deductible can encourage people to take the risk, but it also translates into low premiums.
"It's a lower premium but it's protecting you from that large financial loss," he said.
Though terms vary, a typical policy covers a $250,000 loss for a premium of $100 per year. The minimum deductible is two percent of the coverage - in this case just over $5,100.
The insurance commissioner said most existing policies specifically do not cover earthquakes linked to disposal wells, but that's changing with policies that cover all quakes no matter the cause.
Doak said, "If it shakes or breaks, it's covered, whether it's a man-made event or a natural event."
The bigger issue, Doak said, is that most policies don't cover earthquakes at all.
“Not covered at all. Earthquake insurance is a specific endorsement you have to add on to your policy - it's not in your standard policy," he said.
There is typically a waiting period after a big event, and it varies.
The state is requiring insurance agents to go through training on how to write earthquake policies and handle the claims.
Source
http://www.newson6.com/story/29664154/man-made-earthquakes-now-cove...
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Can't Blame Alabama Quake Swarms on Fracking (Jun 13)
Jim Sterling didn't know what had hit his 156-year-old antebellum home when an earthquake struck Alabama's old plantation region early one morning last November. Startled, he grabbed a gun and ran outdoors.
In the pre-dawn chill, Sterling said, he found an odd scene: horses were galloping, cows mooing and dogs barking.
"I heard a boom and felt the shaking," Sterling said. "It really upset me."
More than a dozen weak earthquakes have followed in the seven months since in west Alabama's rural Greene County, and geologists are trying to figure out what is causing the seismic swarm in an area of the South more prone to tornadoes than earthquakes.
"There has been more activity there than in the last four decades," said Sandy Ebersole, an earthquake expert with the Geological Survey of Alabama.
Just what has been causing the ground to shake is unclear.
One source regulators are discounting is hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," a process for extracting underground oil or natural gas that has been blamed for earthquake swarms elsewhere, including Oklahoma.
While Greene County is on the edge of Alabama's primary region for oil and gas production, state geologist Nick Tew said no such production or disposal work is going on in the area where the quakes are occurring.
Records from the U.S. Geological Survey show the first of 14 earthquakes occurred on Nov. 20, when a magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded about 10 miles northwest of the community of Eutaw. The second occurred in mid-December, followed by another in January and three within a few hours of each other on Feb. 19.
The tremors have continued ever since, with the most recent occurring June 6, when a magnitude 3.0 quake rattled the area. All the tremors have been weaker than the initial jolt in November, and Ebersole said some have been too slight for residents to detect.
Located about 35 miles from Tuscaloosa, the whole of Greene County has only about 8,700 residents, and the area where the quakes are occurring is sparsely populated. Farmlands and forests are dotted by hunting preserves and old homes left over from Alabama's past as a cotton-producing, slave-holding state.
Experts have installed a seismic monitor in a field to enable them to get better information about the quakes, none of which has caused major damage. Ebersole said researchers are trying to rule out potential causes such as blasting for quarries and sonic booms. They've even held meetings with rattled area residents.
In Alabama, the mysterious shaking has left residents like Mark McClelland to protect themselves in the only way they can.
"After the second or third one I went to get some earthquake insurance," said McClelland.
Even without much damage or a major shake to date, Sterling said he would like to know what is causing the quakes.
"A lot of people are wondering what's going on," he said.
Source
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0613/Mysterious-earthquake-sw...
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Over the past week, 37 quakes over magnitude 2.5 were recorded in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
That's 5 quakes per day with an average magnitude of 3.0, the highest magnitude being 4.1.
In 2014, Oklahoma had 584 quakes over magnitude 3.0. This year, USGS estimates there will be nearly one thousand such quakes.
Meanwhile, Sierra Club chapters from Kansas and Oklahoma are hosting a public event this weekend aimed at raising awareness about earthquakes and fracking.
Sources
http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-12/kansas-oklahoma-earthquakes-pro...
3.3
9km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma
2015-06-12 16:20:04 UTC-07:00
3.7
10km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma
2015-06-12 15:42:24 UTC-07:00
3.1
10km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
2015-06-12 15:35:39 UTC-07:00
2.5
12km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma
2015-06-12 11:38:34 UTC-07:00
3.9
22km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 21:38:26 UTC-07:00
3.0
19km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 18:13:55 UTC-07:00
3.7
20km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 16:31:37 UTC-07:00
3.5
21km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 16:28:59 UTC-07:00
3.0
9km NNE of Alva, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 15:55:58 UTC-07:00
2.5
9km NNE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 14:12:25 UTC-07:00
2.7
22km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 11:00:29 UTC-07:00
2.7
21km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 10:41:37 UTC-07:00
2.9
21km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 03:28:36 UTC-07:00
3.1
27km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-11 03:18:17 UTC-07:00
2.6
20km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-10 12:47:46 UTC-07:00
2.6
20km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-10 10:54:31 UTC-07:00
2.6
8km NNE of Harrah, Oklahoma
2015-06-10 10:41:15 UTC-07:00
3.4
20km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-10 06:05:08 UTC-07:00
2.7
19km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-09 18:44:54 UTC-07:00
3.3
11km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma
2015-06-09 12:47:56 UTC-07:00
2.6
9km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma
2015-06-09 12:44:30 UTC-07:00
4.1
21km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 18:26:51 UTC-07:00
2.8
10km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 17:46:45 UTC-07:00
3.9
22km W of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 14:36:58 UTC-07:00
2.5
7km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 11:43:13 UTC-07:00
2.8
7km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 11:23:24 UTC-07:00
2.5
9km ENE of Enid, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 08:08:27 UTC-07:00
2.8
9km ENE of Enid, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 07:48:03 UTC-07:00
3.9
21km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma
2015-06-08 06:20:16 UTC-07:003.4
8km SE of Harper, Kansas
2015-06-07 21:28:16 UTC-07:00
3.3
6km NW of Medford, Oklahoma
2015-06-07 13:20:25 UTC-07:00
2.7
8km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma
2015-06-07 13:20:10 UTC-07:00
3.2
7km NE of Edmond, Oklahoma
2015-06-07 10:15:20 UTC-07:00
2.6
10km SSW of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-07 09:36:55 UTC-07:00
2.8
12km S of Caldwell, Kansas
2015-06-07 05:56:07 UTC-07:00
2.8
22km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma
2015-06-06 08:55:26 UTC-07:00
2.9
12km SSE of Pawnee, Oklahoma
2015-06-06 06:01:05 UTC-07:00
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4.0 Quake in North Texas Was Biggest Yet (May 7)
The biggest quake ever recorded in North Texas shook Johnson and southern Tarrant counties Thursday evening.
“I never felt anything like that before,” Charlotte Crosby said when her house shook in Mansfield.
“I had never felt the house move, and it moved. I thought it was going to come again, but it was just one good shake.”
The Texas Railroad Commission sent inspectors to check all the oil and gas infrastructure within a 10-mile radius of the earthquake’s epicenter for cracks or leaks.
More than 50 small quakes have hit the area since November 2013, mostly centered in the western parts of Dallas.
In 2012, ten minor temblors were recorded in Johnson County within 30 days during June and July.
In all of 2009, Johnson County had only five quakes.
The largest quake ever recorded in Texas was near Valentine in West Texas in 1931, which was a 5.8-magnitude, according to the USGS.
Sources
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article...
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2015/05/stronge...
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Oklahoma launches quake info website on the same day Oklahoma Geological Survey "admits" the link to fracking. (Apr 21)
Oklahoma’s government confirmed this week that hundreds of earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by oil and gas operations. The position marks a sharp turnaround for state officials, who for years expressed skepticism that Oklahoma’s earthquake swarm could be linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas wells.
The launch of a new website came the same day as the release of this statement by the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
Sources
http://www.ibtimes.com/oklahoma-earthquake-swarm-2015-sharp-turnaro...
http://www.kswo.com/story/28859093/oklahoma-launches-new-earthquake...
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Oklahoma Investing $500,000 to Investigate Bridge Damage (Apr 9)
A state agency says there are new concerns over earthquakes harming bridges across the state.
Terri Angier, with the Oklahoma Department Of Transportation, says the dramatic increase in earthquakes across the state is raising concerns about the safety of the state’s infrastructure.
“Because it’s an unknown, it’s kind of scary,” Angier said.
Officials say they are looking for answers, paying more than half a million dollars to an engineering company to find out what damage, if any, is being done.
“We’ve asked the consultant to look at three bridges as a case study,” Angier said.
It’s something ODOT wouldn’t have even considered just 10 years ago.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, only 22 earthquakes were recorded in Oklahoma in 2005.
Just this past week, 55 earthquakes have rattled the state.
“We’re very uncomfortable with the number of earthquakes we’re seeing,” Angier said.
Transportation authorities are sending damage crews to check bridges within five miles of the quake’s epicenter.
Even with hundreds of thousands of drivers hitting the roads each day, and earthquakes dramatically increasing across the state, ODOT officials don’t expect any major problems.
ODOT expects the survey to be complete within the next two years.
Source
http://kfor.com/2015/04/09/its-kind-of-scary-agency-paying-500000-t...
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Missouri Quake Prompts Mississippi Quake Insurance (Apr 2)
Yesterday's 4.0 quake in Missouri, felt from the mid-south to Illinois, was a jolting reminder that Mississippi is vulnerable to earthquakes.
The earthquake hit at 10:51 p.m. and was centered near Steele, Missouri.
"Large boom with tremor lasting at least 30-45 seconds in Blytheville, Arkansas. Could feel waves passing," said Sally Cooke in a Twitter post.
Ammi Tucker of Osceola, Arkansas tweeted: "Was that just an earthquake in NEA? Shook house in Osceola ... that was nuts!"
Today, Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney urged Mississippians to check their homeowner's policies for earthquake coverage.
"The threat of an earthquake striking Mississippi is very real," Chaney said.
"What many do not realize is that most homeowner's policies contain an earthquake exclusion clause very much like the flood exclusion many coastal residents encountered following Hurricane Katrina," Chaney said. "We don't want that same confusion should an earthquake hit our state."
The commissioner urged all homeowners, particularly those closest to the New Madrid seismic zone, to contact their agents and consider purchasing an earthquake endorsement for their policies.
Sources
http://www.gulflive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/04/do_mississippians_ne...
http://wqad.com/2015/04/02/rumble-on-the-new-madrid-fault-wednesday...
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Ongoing quake swarms in Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada and Kansas.
Oklahoma Earthquake Animation Map (2008 -2015)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/ceus/products/OKeqanimation.php
Oklahomans Worried About Ongoing Earthquakes (Jan 29)
The earthquakes come nearly every day now, cracking drywall, popping floor tiles and rattling kitchen cabinets. On Monday, three quakes hit this historic land-rush town in 24 hours, booming and rumbling like the end of the world.
“After a while, you can’t even tell what’s a pre-shock or an after-shock. The ground just keeps moving.”
Source
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/oklahoma-worries-ove...
Earthquake Swarms Alarm Texas Residents (Jan 23)
There have been dozens of earthquakes in the past few months. They now average about one a day, although some days bring many more.
January has been a shaky month for Irving, Texas. Twelve earthquakes rattled the city during a 48-hour period at the end of the first week of the new year.
On January 21, five more quakes struck.
“It was very scary. I was at my job on the 4th floor in a cubicle surrounded by glass,” Tonya Rochelle Tatum, a loan specialist who works in Irving, told DeSmogBlog. “One quake seemed like it lasted five minutes. No one knew what to do.”
The earthquake swarm shows no sign of stopping.
Sources
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/earthquake-swarm-near-texas-frack...
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/01/27/texas-town-center-latest-earth...
Northern Nevada Earthquakes Raise Concern (Jan 30)
Could the recent earthquakes near the Nevada-Oregon border be a warning of something bigger to come?
Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Lab, said since July, about 3,500 earthquakes have been recorded near Vya, Nev., home to no more than a handful of ranches.
Almost 200 of the quakes have been magnitude 3 or greater. One recorded Jan. 22, registered 4.7 of the Richter scale.
“This seems to be potentially the biggest swarm we've had,” Kent said. “We can't think of a bigger one.”
Source
http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/Northern-Nevada-swarm-of-...
Kansas Geologists Seek More Funding for Earthquake Monitoring (Jan 28)
Kansas geologists say they need more funding to investigate an unprecedented spike in earthquakes in the state.
Kansas Geological Survey Director Rex Buchanan told the House Energy and Environment Committee that about half a million dollars is needed to beef up seismic monitoring. The agency has recorded 206 earthquakes since Jan. 1, 2013, after detecting three from 2004 through 2012.
Source
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2015/01/28/355674.htm
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Connecticut Has 5 Quakes in 5.5 Hours (Jan 12)
Five small earthquakes were recorded within a 5½-hour span in eastern Connecticut on Monday, including a 3.1-magnitude quake that was felt in parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, according to the Weston Observatory at Boston College and the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quakes followed two in the same area last week, including a 2.0-magnitude quake Thursday and a 0.4 magnitude Friday. All the quakes were centered near Danielson and in northern Plainfield.
Four of the quakes on Monday were within a 20-minute span starting just after 6:30 a.m., including the 3.1-magnitude quake that was felt in parts of Rhode Island, including Providence, and more than 60 miles away in Massachusetts in New Bedford and Framingham, scientists said. A 1.3-magnitude aftershock was recorded just after noon.
"At first I thought it was a snow plow, but there was no snow," Darlene Gannon of Sterling, Connecticut, told The Bulletin of Norwich. "Then the breaking sound began, like a vehicle crashing through our stone wall. When I figured out that wasn't the case, I thought maybe the garage had collapsed."
Source
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/small-earthquake-confirmed-conne...
From USGS:
"The lack of historical and instrumental reports of strong earthquakes in Connecticut suggests that State to be a region of very minor seismic activity, even when compared to other States in the northeast region."
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/connecticut/history.php
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