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Title: Power out after 4.3-magnitude earthquake hits central Alberta
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2014-08-09 21:45:54
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Raise your hand if you think Fracking may have played a role . .

[Gunnair]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Raise your hand if you think Fracking may have played a role . .

Impossible. Fracktivists say it can't happen....like climate change.

[Jabberwalker]

4.3 is a wee little shake and we get them every few years here around the Great Lakes. I'm surprised that you don't get them once a month beside that big mountain range just down the Yellowhead Highway that's pushing itself up-up-up all of the time.

[wildrosegirl]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Raise your hand if you think Fracking may have played a role . .

Don't be silly. Too much money is being made to even think such a thing.

[Alta_redneck]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

4.3 is a wee little shake and we get them every few years here around the Great Lakes. I'm surprised that you don't et them once a month beside that big mountain range just down the Yellowhead Highway that's pushing itself up-up-up all of the time.

We have a winner:

$1:

Of the 86 minor earthquakes measured in Alberta so far this year, most of them happened near Jasper and Rocky Mountain House. This is because active tectonic plate movement beneath the earth’s surface builds the mountains, and the release of this force causes the earth to rumble. Over the years, these mostly innocuous temblors actually make our Rockies even more magnificent, raising their height anywhere between a couple of centimetres to a few metres depending on the size of the earthquake.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Earthqua ... story.html

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

4.3 is a wee little shake and we get them every few years here around the Great Lakes. I'm surprised that you don't et them once a month beside that big mountain range just down the Yellowhead Highway that's pushing itself up-up-up all of the time.

Shoot, in California if anyone tweaks about a pissy little 4.3 shaker we just giggle and laugh. Down here unless it's 5.5 or bigger we don't pay it much mind.

[N_Fiddledog]

It's this thing they'll be doing now. There's no actual evidence Fracking is causing problems anywhere for anyone, so they'll start mentioning tremblers between 3 and 4(which is like standing next to a freeway) where before they were rarely publicly noticed.

It's kind of like when the statistically significant global warming stopped, and "Oh look, weather."

Hey, did any fellow BCer know we had a 6.6 quake in Campbell River in May? I wouldn't have known except I just looked it up.

http://earthquaketrack.com/r/british-co ... ada/recent

Just for the fun of it Google Campbell River Earquake. See if you can find the CBC's coverage of that one. I can't.

[jj2424]

it's Climate Change! and don't you forget it damn it!

[N_Fiddledog]

Just for the fun of it Google Campbell River Earthquake. See if you can find the CBC's coverage of that one. I can't.

They just missed the line in CR, I think. It was shortly after that the reports of Frackquakes began in earnest.

A Frackquake is an earth tremble that would have gone unnoticed before all the big anti-Fracking interests started spilling money into the pockets of professional protesters and minor, previously unknown, earth "scientists".

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

4.3 is a wee little shake and we get them every few years here around the Great Lakes. I'm surprised that you don't et them once a month beside that big mountain range just down the Yellowhead Highway that's pushing itself up-up-up all of the time.

That's pretty much what I told my wife when she wondered if it was a result of exploiting the oil sands. She's always got the USGS web site up when she's online.

[Wolf1412]

Just had a 5.5 in Pretoria, RSA last week. Having grown up on Van Isl was fun to watch the locals looking stunned.