Holy Shit, we just had a tremor here in NYC

Maybe not. I didn't know until I was looking at all the NY stuff, after GQ posted, that there was a quake in Trinadad, CO yesterday.

 

Yes, last night. 5.3 I think, and the first "natural" quake in about 100 years - the others were mining or explosive induced (which is scary shit in and of itself).

I slept through it. Would be nice to think today's tremor was an "aftershock."

 

Trees don't even grow as high some buildings in NY, what makes you think you mile high flying urban yuppies should push paper up there...

 

Trinidad is too far away for us to feel in Denver. I have felt a quake before. Grew up near the New Madrid fault and went through a good one.

 

I'm in the Springs, but I slept through it, still over 100 miles away. I've been through a few when I lived in California, and believe it or not, a good sized jolt in Massachusetts.

 

Iphone. I know that's LA approved...


and yeah I didn't feel anything. I was either on the street or the crosstown bus at the time.

I did a see bunch of people outside of their office buildings.

 

Hell.. we had to run out of those buildings... if not for 9/11, we might have blown it off...

 

Well Pat Robertson said this assisnine comment about the Haitian Earthqauke

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"They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.' True story. And so the devil said, 'Ok it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another," Robertson said.

So I am sure that somehow, some whackadoo will blame the fact that Obama is in the White House and it happened in DC. I am becoming more and more convinced that racists need to be medicated.

 

From Twitter this afternoon: BREAKING: #GOP slams #Earthquake as part of liberal socialist agenda, accuses it of giving millions "a free ride."

 

Falls in line with the Carl Lewis thread, medicate Delaneys wife...

 

I texted all my East Coast peoples today and I said the same thing. It's funny cause I know a few people who talk about the quakes out here and how they could never live here. They spoke too soon. They ate their words...lol

 

Oh, Come on - I have been here since 06 and felt a dozen at least - three that was more than average. Where on earth in LA do you live if you only felt one???

 

Honestly. I've been around when they happened, I just never felt them. I was either sleep, not in a position to feel it, or I didn't notice it.

 

Don't worry. I'll send hurricane Irene to investigate!

 

Lucky you. LOL.
I honestly don't think they are a big deal at all and I am afraid I will pay for that one day. I am way to lax when it comes to reacting to them.

 

Told you that somehow this would be blamed on Obama.


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Well, everyone get on your knees and pray to our heavenly father, repent for the time is at hand...salvation is for everyone...god loves us all and he knows how much pain americans are going through...he does not want that anyone should parish but that everyone will come to repentance...just think how many illegals are here in the usa...don't you think it is time they went back to their country and leave america alone...the axels of the earth are shifting because there are too many people in the usa...the earth in the usa area can not sustain that much weight...do something about it...get the illegal mexicans out of this country...obama does not know god's power...he is not a christian...i said it before that obama will be sorry for taking the office of the president and not know how to manage the affairs of this beautiful country...enough said...
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The earth has axels? Who knew?? (Also, the writer should invest in a few commas and a period or two, and capital letters. They are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack of a horse).

 

Interesting.........






East Coast earthquake might have been man-made Lead
Fracking could have caused East Coast earthquake

Published: 24 August, 2011, 20:36
Edited: 24 August, 2011, 22:47

Experts are looking for a reason behind Tuesday afternoon’s unlikely 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook people up and down the East Coast, and some are saying that a recent rise in fracking could be the culprit.

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is the man-made splintering of underground rocks to expedite the exploiting of natural resources. It’s become a widespread phenomenon since its introduction in 2004, and though the practice can help increase supplies of oil and gas without reaching out internationally for imports, the result it can have on the geological make-up of the Earth can be ravaging. Now some experts say the rise in fracking could be to blame for yesterday’s quake.

The odds of a quake exceeding a magnitude of 5.5 occurring in central Virginia are so slim that Dominion Power determined only around six quakes of that size would occur in the area over the next 10,000 years. Dominion was looking at building a third nuclear reactor at their power plant in North Anna, VA, where facilities had to be taken offline yesterday as a result of the quake. Despite predicting that the site would be scarcely affected ever by a tremor, the quake’s epicenter was only mere miles from the nuclear facility.

Dominion, which confirmed in February that it will be building a third reactor for the plant, was rated by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the seventh most-likely site to receive damage from a quake, taking into consideration the 100-plus plants from coast-to-coast. Even still, the plant had its earthquake-sensing seismographs removed in the 1990s in order to save money.

When sites are subjected to fracking, waste salt water is injected back into the earth once fractures are created; in some cases, as many as 3 million gallons of the waste can be put into the earth in each well. Though earthquakes out east are unlikely, Braxton County West Virginia, only 160 miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s tremor, has seen eight minor movements in 2010 alone. That site has also seen a slew of fracking operations in the several years before it.

Explicitly, the United States Geological Survey has published a finding confirming that processes like fracking can be to blame for “natural” disasters. "Earthquakes induced by human activity have been documented in a few locations in the United States, Japan and Canada,” writes the USGS. “The cause was injection of fluids into deep wells for waste disposal and secondary recovery of oil and the use of reservoirs for water supplies."

Out West, geologists have blamed fracking on earthquakes that unexpectedly shook up the state of Arkansas, which recently saw over 20 small tremors in a single day. Freak earthquakes have also occurred in regions of Texas, New York and Oklahoma that should not be likely sites of epicenters, though those locales have all seen a rise in fracking in recent years.

Multi-stage fracking, which can drill several miles deep in the Earth, has only become prevalent in recent years. Once introduced, however, Arkansas, West Virginia and Texas all saw an unexpected increase in quakes across the region. The correlation has caused concern in other parts of the country, including West Virginia, where residents are asking lawmakers to reconsider the legality of fracking, which can not only cause earthquakes but is overall detrimental to the local ecosystem. One incident in central Virginia occurred in 2008 when fracking caused an explosion of a natural gas pipeline that created a fireball that stretched up to half a mile long and tall and injured five people.

Mineral, VA, the site of Tuesday’s quake’s epicenter, is only 90 miles from the West Virginia border, where activists are rallying to change the lax state legislation which has caused companies to conduct fracking operations more and more and recent years.

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article -- https://rt.com/usa/news/f...rginia-dc-817-061/print/

 

For all you BSG fans, frak that shit.

Mother Earth is being pretty clear with us about not liking this. I also read the other day that the quake in CO the night before was the biggest in 40 years...the biggest in a century which was not "man-made." Um...we have enough trouble with natural disasters without creating our own.