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Unexplained Arkansas Earthquakes

#1 Postby StormingB81 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:59 pm

Ark. cities feel unexplained surge in earthquakes

Several small earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 1.8 to 3.8 have rattled the north-central Arkansas cities of Greenbrier and Guy this week, and the cause is unknown.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110217/ap_ ... arthquakes

What are you guys thoughts on this?
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#2 Postby Metalicwx220 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:08 pm

New madrid Fault awakening. :eek:
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#3 Postby WeatherGuesser » Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:47 am

Where's Roseanne?
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Re: Unexplained Arkansas Earthquakes

#4 Postby Sihara » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:55 pm

Yesterday, around 5:15, a 3.5 earthquake was reported in the Gulf around the AL/FL border. People in both states felt it - don't know if it caused any damage though.

But this is nowhere near the New Madrid fault, is it? I thought that fault was nearer to N. Arkansas up to TN, or thereabouts.
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Re: Unexplained Arkansas Earthquakes

#5 Postby vbhoutex » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:58 pm

Sihara wrote:Yesterday, around 5:15, a 3.5 earthquake was reported in the Gulf around the AL/FL border. People in both states felt it - don't know if it caused any damage though.

But this is nowhere near the New Madrid fault, is it? I thought that fault was nearer to N. Arkansas up to TN, or thereabouts.

You are correct about the location of the New Madrid fault which is in the AR, TN, MO area. I am not aware of any faults in the FL/AL line area. Did the quake show up on the USGS site?
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#6 Postby StormingB81 » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:17 pm

It did. I remember that one
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Re: Unexplained Arkansas Earthquakes

#7 Postby lurkey » Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:16 pm

Wasn't this explained by some sort of natural gas mining that was going on?..... I think the term is fracking..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking
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