5.4 earthquake…in Texas?? What?!

[Velodromed]

There was a 5.4 earthquake that was felt throughout San Antonio yesterday late afternoon. The epicenter was a few hundred miles away in Pecos, Texas. Pretty crazy, I lived for 20 years and San Jose, California and the biggest quake was a 5.2. Weird man just weird.

 

[Diem Turner]

That's what the strongest earthquake was that I experienced during our 5 year stay in Walnut Creek, CA. We moved to Kansas 3 months before the 6.9 earthquake in 1989.

 

[slick2500]

Eh we just get blizzards and tornadoes here.

 

[Tex Koder]

There was a 5.4 earthquake that was felt throughout San Antonio yesterday late afternoon. The epicenter was a few hundred miles away in Pecos, Texas. Pretty crazy, I lived for 20 years and San Jose, California and the biggest quake was a 5.2. Weird man just weird.

Hopefully it's not because of ALL the fracking going on under y'all's feet...
Oh hold on a sec..

https://ballotpedia.org/Fracking_in_Texas

https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/eagle-ford-shale/page/2/

https://dynamospatial.com/oil-and-gas-play/eagle-ford-shale/

I'm getting a bad feeling...

 

[Velodromed]

Yup. My son was a frack field worker for years and the process is highly destructive, so wouldn’t be surprised at all…
But your map doesn’t show any fracking where the quake happened? Pecos is more north East. Hell, there are fault lines everywhere you know. Some are just more active then others.

 

[Tex Koder]

Yup. My son was a frack field worker for years and the process is highly destructive, so wouldn’t be surprised at all…
But your map doesn’t show any fracking where the quake happened? Pecos is more north East. Hell, there are fault lines everywhere you know. Some are just more active then others.

It's like cracking a whip..
The movement near the source is nothing like at the tip end further out..

 

[Velodromed]

It's like cracking a whip..
The movement near the source is nothing like at the tip end further out..

That is a very good analogy. Movement at one end can break the sound barrier at the other

 

[joshludden]

Eh we just get blizzards and tornadoes here.

Same here in flatland Iowa

 

[Doom!]

Mother Nature just likes to shake things up occasionally.

 

[SrC]

Same here in flatland Iowa

Same here in NYC.
When Gov Hochel farts up in Albany, we get the smell here in NYC. Go figure.

 

[Velodromed]

Mother Nature just likes to shake things up occasionally.

Hell I didn’t feel it. If I had I would have assumed it was my f-up nerves

 

[olds97_lss]

Eh we just get blizzards and tornadoes here.

Same. Sometimes on the same day. Throw in a flood for good measure.