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The Dutch love affair with natural gas: A cautionary tale for the United States?
The Dutch love affair with natural gas: A cautionary tale for the United States? The story sounds familiar. For decades oil and natural gas drilling have been proceeding and creating prosperity for those involved. At some point significant earthquakes occur in areas where they were formerly very rare or nonexistent. Those quakes are linked to […]
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco”
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco” While Oklahoma has had a handful of notable earthquakes over the past century, it was essentially never an earthquake state. And rightfully so, given that the USGS and other officials, up until quite recently, ranked Oklahoma’s earthquake hazard level at the […]
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs For years geologists have warned that Southern California is overdue for “The Big One”, a massive 8.0 or greater earthquake that would undoubtedly cause unprecedented death and destruction in several heavily populated urban centers sprinkled along the San […]
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’ If you reside on the west coast, you are living on borrowed time. As you will see below, stress has been building up along the San Andreas fault for more than a century, and scientists tell us that southern California […]
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year to 2 a day. Is the expansion of gas and oil exploration during that same period of time a […]
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions All over the world seismic activity is increasing. In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic earthquake in Ecuador, more than 600 earthquakes have experts extremely alarmed about what is happening to Japan’s southern Island, and 37 volcanoes around the planet are erupting right […]
Dozens Of Large Earthquakes Strike As Speculation Mounts That Japan’s Southern Island May Split
Dozens Of Large Earthquakes Strike As Speculation Mounts That Japan’s Southern Island May Split Over the past 48 hours, our planet has been hit by literally dozens of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater, and scientists are acknowledging that what is taking place is highly unusual. This strange shaking began toward the end of last week […]
The Next Fukushima? Active Fault Line Discovered Directly Below Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
The Next Fukushima? Active Fault Line Discovered Directly Below Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Five years after the Fukushima disaster, things are getting worse. As we reported last week, “the fuel rods melted through their containment vessels in the reactors, and no one knows exactly where they are now. Tepco has been developing robots, which can […]
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes ending on Sept. 22, 2005 struck in Kern County near the southern end of […]
Oklahoma Leads The World In Seismic Activity As 2015 Quake Count Tops 5,000
Oklahoma Leads The World In Seismic Activity As 2015 Quake Count Tops 5,000 With geologists having confirmed the link between fracking and earthquakes in Oklahoma (and energy executives trying to get those geologists fired), the news this week that The Sooner State leads the world in seismic activity will likely see more uproar from residents.. and more lobbying dollars […]
Swarm Of California Earthquakes Continues A Series Of Unusual Events That Began In Late September
Swarm Of California Earthquakes Continues A Series Of Unusual Events That Began In Late September First it was wildfires, then it was unprecedented flooding, and now it is earthquakes. In the past two weeks alone, more than 400 earthquakes have shaken San Ramon – a small city that sits approximately 45 miles east of San […]
2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them
2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook frack-happy Oklahoma on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year. The stronger quake occurred just a few miles from the city of Cushing, which holds one of the largest […]
Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC
Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC Impact on groundwater and migrating gases mostly unknown, critics say. A special report. New research and presentations by both provincial and federal scientists show that the shale gas industry, which the B.C. government hopes will eventually supply proposed liquefied natural gas terminals with fracked gas, has caused […]
Another 4.4 Magnitude Industry Reported Quake in Alberta
Another 4.4 Magnitude Industry Reported Quake in Alberta Chevron shuts down operations following seismic event near Fox Creek. Chevron Canada has confirmed that “a magnitude 4.4 seismic event was recorded by seismic monitoring arrays operated by Chevron Canada and Natural Resources Canada” in the Duvernay shale near Fox Creek, Alberta on Saturday. It’s the second […]
