Just had an Earthquake here in Ohio...

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I was in the kitchen, and the lid on the crockpot with the saurkraut and hot dogs and all kinds of other meat started bouncing around, I thought it was just bubbling, until Leslie, my fiance, was like "what the hell was that?!". I replied, "Um, the crockpot." "No, the whole house just shook, my feet were bouncing on the loveseat!" I didn't hear any large trucks or trains, so she got on her facebook and everyone was posting about tvs falling over, apartments shaking, etc. Kinda crazy, especially on New Years Eve. I'm a little superstitious, and its kind of a weird omen for the New Year...unless this one is just going out with a bang lol. Anyone else in Ohio/Pennsylvania/West Virginia feel it?

I'm 40min south of Youngstown, 40min northwest of Pittsburgh, and 30 min north of WV.

According to some local news sites, there has been a rash of seismic activity in this area that we never had before. Just started after the state approved "fracking" in this area. Most of the quakes center within 2 miles of the one fracking well near Youngstown.
 
We have had some decent size earthquakes in Oklahoma this year. They say we always have some but 2 of these shook the house and I had never felt one before.

Glad to hear all is well with you.
 
It's listed as a 4.0 centered in McDonald OH.

Did not feel it here in Erie.
 
Wow, that is pretty close. Seems like everyone I know that lives a little further north said it was worse for them, and McDonald is closer to them.
 
That was a baby one we have them every day in California times are changing seems like they are every where now. :bounce:
 
We felt it big time over here in Boardman.

Had plates and pictures fall off the walls.

I first thought that the neighbors tree fell on the house or a car crashed into it!

What the heck is going on????
 
Are sure it wasn't just some Mopar guys all starting up there big blocks at the same time that caused all that vibration?

MA Snart
 

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I wish it was a bunch of big blocks! That would be awesome! I wish I knew what was going on...I joked around with my fiance about the 2012 stuff, and that I should forget about bills and just concentrate on getting my car done before the apocalypse. Haha!
 
I have heard of the same fault. It starts under washington, and it has basically spread across the globe. I used to feel tremors while I'd be getting gas in my car, it was odd today feeling it in the kitchen.
 
I guess I better work triple hard since I have 3 cars to get finished plus concrete the garage floor so I have SOMEWHERE to work on them!!! Will have pics of the 318 for the Black fish up this week - picked up the paint for the wife's 66 Signet yesterday. Should have both ready for the spring cruises!!!
 
McDONALD, Ohio (AP) — Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure to cause seismic activity.

The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale. But Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Jim Zehringer said during a news teleconference that fracking is not causing the quakes.

"The seismic events are not a direct result of fracking," he said.

Environmentalists and property owners who live near gas drilling wells have questioned the safety of fracking to the environment and public health. Federal regulators have declared the technology safe, however.

Zehringer said four injection wells within a five-mile radius of an already shuttered well in Youngstown will remain inactive while further scientific research is conducted.

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And how does he know its NOT from the activity ??

Isn't odd how the last few years a few quakes have happen in places who rarely had earthqauke it the recent past ?

Yeah blame GWB, likely was his OK to go ahead injecting waste deep underground.

The guy has done so much harm to the world its unbelievable
 
Its joke how we know so little about quakes yet the feds can be so sure fracking is not causing them.

Least its only minor quakes--for right now. That is why fracking in the area has been stop, what if the feds are wrong and they let the fracking go on and a 7 or 8 scale quake hits ?

Common sense says you can't keep shooting crap underground forever without the earth moving to make room for it.

Same when you remove mass amounts of oil and gas from the ground, the Earth plates must be affected
 
Fracking was to open up vast amounts of gas that in the past could not be removed from the Earth.

Looks like another bright new idea might not be so perfect after all.

All the USA needs is a big quake to take place in Ohio, that be the icing on the cake. That gas isn't going anywhere, we better proceed very carefully and slowly. Why not trying fracking some place where few folks live--like in Northern Canada, then if a big quake does strike up there little damage will take place.

Heck if a 8.0 quake struck in Northern Ohio, oh man. Even the Ambassador and Peace bridges might come crashing down.
 
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