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Date: July 21, 2022 at 07:09:16
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: M 4.7 - 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico |
URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tx2022oeha/executive |
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2022-07-21 13:35:58 (UTC)
31.682°N 104.420°W
5.8 km depth
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Date: July 21, 2022 at 07:14:11
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: M 4.7 - 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico |
URL: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/region/5546/earthquakes/chihuahua.html |
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Date: July 21, 2022 at 07:18:43
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: M 4.7 - 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico |
URL: https://www.eenews.net/articles/earthquakes-linked-to-drilling-are-messing-with-texas/ |
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Earthquakes linked to drilling are messing with Texas
By Mike Soraghan | 12/10/2021 07:10 AM EST
Neta Rhyne can look out her front window and see the world’s largest spring-fed swimming pool and the desert oasis that surrounds it in Toyahvale, Texas.
And from there, she frequently feels earthquakes that she worries will destroy the spring and pool in Balmorhea State Park.
"We fear these springs are one earthquake away from disappearing forever," Rhyne said.
The oil and gas industry — which dominates the West Texas economy — is causing the shaking, scientists say. Specifically, the quakes are linked to injecting underground the billions of
gallons of wastewater that come up from wells in the drilling zone known as the Permian Basin.
It’s made the forbidding stretch of Chihuahuan Desert east of El Paso one of the shakiest spots in the nation. The plain between El Paso and Midland has been hit this year by 15 earthquakes
of magnitude 4 or greater — large enough to rattle dishes and make cracking sounds in houses.
And that’s just the most dramatic example of the surge in earthquakes in Texas and southeastern New Mexico in recent years, much of it linked to oil and gas. There have also been quakes
around population centers — including Midland, Snyder and San Antonio.
The trend is turning Texas into a seismic state and has even prodded the state’s industry-friendly oil and gas regulators into scaling back some oil field activity.
So far this year, there have been been almost 200 quakes of magnitude 3 or greater in Texas, nearly doubling the roughly 100 registered in 2020. On top of that, there have been five in
southeast New Mexico. There have been no injuries, and little damage has been reported, but there’s concern about what could happen if the quakes keep getting bigger, more frequent or closer
to population centers.
"We know the historical baseline. We’re way above that," said Mairi Litherland, manager of the New Mexico Tech Seismological Observatory, who is studying the quakes from across the state
line. "The present level of seismicity is not really a problem. It could cause problems if it continues."
The biggest quake came in March 2020. At magnitude 5, it was big enough to cause real damage. But since it was centered under a flat, empty rangeland between the Pecos River and the Rustler
Hills, there wasn’t much to damage.
Still, Rhyne felt it 50 miles to the south. She said it caused about $2,000 worth of damage to her home.
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https://www.eenews.net/articles/earthquakes-linked-to-drilling-are-messing-with-texas/
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