Did y'all here about our earthquakes?

NOLABridesmaid

I'm sitting on the sofa talking on the phone and all of a sudden the whole house felt like it moved. At first I thought it was the wind, but it was too strong to be the wind. I turned on the news and they said it was a earthquake. We had 8 small ones in one day. Weird.

PMeg819

I felt an earthquake once. I thought I had a brain tumor or something at first, but then figured out it was an earthquake. Everyone thought I was cray-cray until they turned on the news and I was right.

I am all conspiracy theory, but I feel like it's all related to fracking and oil drilling and all that nonsense. That's my crazy showing through.

VarunaTT

It's not conspiracy theory, PMeg.  There's statistically significant evidence pointing towards earthquakes in Oklahoma being caused by fracking.  It's pretty much a confirmed cause. 

Where NOLA is, IDK if that's true or not.

PMeg819

Yeah, I heard about Ohio I believe. I say conspiracy (and I use that loosely I guess) because I have an uncle who is an engineer in the oil/gas industry and he's all "fracking is totes safe!"

VarunaTT

Huh.  He'd be interesting to talk to, just b/c I want to know what he would say re: the water contamination issue.  I guess the process itself is "safe", it's the byproducts of the process that seem to be the issue.

mrsconn23

Earthquakes are crazy.  I was asleep the last time we had one. It was the craziest thing.  I had no idea what to think...Until DH called and was all, "Did you feel the earthquake?!"  There were a few aftershocks too.  I got up to leave my desk at work when an aftershock hit and almost threw me into a wall. 

We get IRL earthquakes here.  There's a fault line right through our state.  

I've not heard the theories/reports about the fracking stuff, but that doesn't surprise me.