Oh, natgas is about to zoom to record levels, and the okie earthquakes are to start again. These earthquakes totally depend on natgas fracking water, and have been on the down-low since natgas prices went into the basement.
One can only hope. The seismic people were caught napping. Normally, they would have all the info by now.
ps. dear okie-dokies, we don't know if this earthquake was a start of injecting the good stuff again. Texas has had the old lady revolt, and they don't want to inject any more. You could be just having regular seismicity. You have drilled the place like Swiss Cheese, and left all the boreholes open. If it rains, all that surface water goes down the holes, and dissolves stressed quartz and starts earthquake mechanisms. You have a perfect mechanism for an M7, and you have had the required number of M6's. So, you have something like a 10% chance of an M7 in 10 years, or maybe not. Nobody believes me.
Once your M7 pops off, then a very good chance for the Toronto mechanism to follow.
pps. whoops, a whole bunch of earthquakes along a fault. Neato
more: that's right in the town, and 2 m4.4's on the same fault open to an m5.5.
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