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cherokeepatti 路 61-69, F
Three that scared me and each one was different. The first one was centered about 5 miles away and it was a big boom & a couple seconds later the house felt like it had been grabbed & shaken. I thought I was going to faint thinking first it was a bomb, second a military plane from the nearby base went down....the second one was about 5.3 and lasted long enough for me to run from the back bedroom to the living room, to outdoors and back inside...they said it lasted more than a minute and it rolled like in waves. The third one happened when I was sleeping a bit late in the morning and it nearly knocked me out of bed. I鈥檝e also experienced a few smaller ones that felt like a whoosh up against the sunroom (sounded like a big strong gush of wind), those were farther away. And one time was sitting in my recliner and felt a little movement and the parakeets started going nuts flapping their wings and fussing....they did that a few times in the middle of the night for no other apparent reason.
ProfessorPlum77 路 70-79, MVIP
@cherokeepatti My goodness! You listed quite a resume, there. Were they all in the same area or state?
cherokeepatti 路 61-69, F
@ProfessorPlum77 yes all in central Oklahoma. Probably caused by salt water injection wells.
ProfessorPlum77 路 70-79, MVIP
@cherokeepatti Is that the same as fracking?
cherokeepatti 路 61-69, F
@ProfessorPlum77 No but saltwater may be used for fracking. It鈥檚 how they dispose of the saltwater that has been linked to the earthquakes. In Arkansas they figured out that the saltwater disposal into wells was linked to earthquakes. They didn鈥檛 want to dispose of it in Arkansas so they trucked the waste to Oklahoma and it was disposed of here. We got a lot more to dispose of that way and the earthquakes started here in the early 2000鈥檚. First very minor ones sometimes they鈥檇 feel them on the west side of this city but not on this side. The first one that was loud was in 2010. An old farmer living about 10 miles from here told me back then that his well water had turned salty and he had to buy drinking water and haul water for his cattle. I asked him if he knew why. He said he didn鈥檛 and I asked him if there were oil wells nearby and he said yes. Supposedly when they dispose of that saltwater they are disposing of it below the aquifer so it doesn鈥檛 get into the groundwater. So maybe it came from the fracking. I don鈥檛 know though.
ProfessorPlum77 路 70-79, MVIP
@cherokeepatti Interesting. And that poor farmer has to pay for water because of something happening in another state. That is wrong.
cherokeepatti 路 61-69, F
@ProfessorPlum77 I don鈥檛 know for sure if it was because of Oklahoma disposing of the wastewater or if it was from a nearby fracking well. I鈥檓 sure he wasn鈥檛 the only rural landowner who had something like that happened due to nearby oil drilling.
ProfessorPlum77 路 70-79, MVIP
@cherokeepatti The Law of Unintended Consequences.
