11 earthquakes reported since Friday
Eleven earthquakes have been recorded in Faulkner County since Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website.
Six of the quakes were reported Friday. The first three occurred one mile east-southeast of Guy with the first, a 2.1 magnitude, registering at 1:17 p.m. The second, a 1.6 magnitude, followed at 1:19 p.m., while the third, a 1.5 magnitude, occurred at 3:07 p.m. A 1.7 magnitude quake, the fourth of the day, was recorded at 3:41 p.m. two miles east-southeast of Guy. Friday’s fifth earthquake, a 1.9 magnitude, was reported at 5:18 p.m. two miles southeast of Guy, followed by a 1.6 magnitude quake at 6:03 p.m. one mile southeast of Guy.
Two earthquakes were reported early Saturday morning. The first, a 1.8 magnitude, occurred at 12:37 a.m. two miles east-southeast of Guy, and the second registered as a 2.7 magnitude quake at 4:56 a.m. one mile east-southeast of Guy.
A 1.8 magnitude earthquake occurred Monday at 4:03 a.m. five miles north of Enola. A second quake, a 1.7 magnitude, was recorded at 5:45 a.m. one mile east-southeast of Guy. Monday’s final earthquake registered a 2.0 magnitude at 6:01 a.m. three miles southeast of Guy.
(Staff writer Stephanie Fischer can be reached by e-mail at stephanie.fischer@thecabin.net or by phone at 505-1238. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit.)
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Add commentEarthquakes.....
Statement Retracted.
Shaken responses
I would like to see The Cabin do a story on the community response and the damage to water/septic systems these quakes are doing. It seems to me that 11+ earthquakes per week for two weeks in a row is a little high, and possibly unnatural. Who pays when these earthquakes get larger?
seriously...relax
"It seems to me that 11+ earthquakes per week for two weeks in a row is a little high, and possibly unnatural."
Not according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale
which states there are 8000 earthquakes A DAY of less than 2.0.
The ONLY reason this is newsworthy is because the new measuring devices are in place. If these devices had been in place 50 years ago, we would have detected as many back then as well.
A construction site blast is a 1.0. I can remember the Hogan cut-through blasting, it rattled the house I lived in many times.
Citation needed
Where is your information to support this statement: "If these devices had been in place 50 years ago, we would have detected as many back then as well."
Why were monitoring devices put in place near Guy? Is it because of the amount of fracking for natural gas production?
According to a study by Schulumberger, fracking can cause earthquakes. http://www.slb.com/resources/publications/industry_articles/oilfield_rev... How do we know these earthquakes were not caused by fracking?
This article says that earthquakes are induced by fracking: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V72-3TC6SNC-D...
What proof exists to show these are not fracking-induced earthquakes?
All but one of the quakes
All but one of the quakes happened within a 2 mile area southeast of Guy. If u had actual latitude and longitude it would be oh so easy to determine if they were Gas industry related. If u go back 2 months u will see that 90% of these quakes are happening in Guy????
Enola Swarm 1982
http://www.geology.ar.gov/maps_pdf/geohazards/Enola_Swarm_Map_Area.pdf
40,000 earthquakes since 1982.
Enola and Guy are what 10-12 miles apart? I don't think the gas industry was there in 1982. I could be wrong.
Guy
All but one of the quakes happened within a 2 mile area southeast of Guy. If u had actual latitude and longitude it would be oh so easy to determine if they were Gas industry related. If u go back 2 months u will see that 90% of these quakes are happening in Guy????
So, ALL of the frac-ing is occuring in Guy? I thought there were also wells in Conway County?