Latest on Texas earthquakes as 61 quakes reported in a Texas county in 7 days

After 61 earthquakes in seven days, Scurry County Judge Dan Hicks, has officially declared a disaster and requesting state assistance.

[johnknouse]

I worked in the oilfield for years. This doesn’t surprise me one bit!

[URRT]

I remember people in several Texas counties, complaining about earthquakes, and their water catching on fire due to fracking!
I also remember their complaints falling on deaf ears, due to Governor Rick Perry at the time, and the Texas Railroad Commission selling out Texas to billion dollar oil, and gas companies!
People living in these counties, had to have water transported in, spending as much as 2 thousand dollars a month, and more!

[BackWordsJane]

I've lived in Texas for 24 years and these large swarms have never happened during that time. Something is going on

[wolfseinfein]

That part of Texas is located over a seismic fault line under pressure from the Cauldera in Eastern New Mexico

[LocomotiveBreth]

But the geologists that the oil companies paid to do the study said it definitely wasn't caused by fracking 😉😉

[bitfenix]

Call Rex Tillerson... he was ex-CEO of Exxon (who long-denied fracking dangers), and he filed suit to stop fracking near his McKinney ranch. That was granted. But no one else's. Only GOPee Rex as he became a trump's secretary of energy.

[googleuser]

Well just keep on fracking. Soon your ground water will be as contaminated as here in southwestern PA.😢

[susanlemos]

Another example of “Don’t California my Texas”

[fluxfaze]

Which oil companies do residents sue for frack-quake damage to homes?

[zygotepeyote]

When are we going to learn??? It is embarrassing to be an American these

[borrowedtruths]

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” (Matthew 24:7)

[emmiestacy]

Also way more quakes than they are reporting

[jimbobrobertson]

You should investigate if other states between Texas and Wyoming have felt Quakes. Seismic activity under Yellowstone could be a sign of things to come.

[emmiestacy]

Now they determined it to be a 5.1 wow

[EdwardStrishock]

The depth of the quake on Monday was at a depth way deeper than oil well fracking

[menmyrc]

Fracking has nothing to do with quakes, worked in Beverly Hills for 10 years drilling for oil and gas. Reporters tried blaming fracking on the reason why there was a quake and the geologists here in California shot that down real quick.

[keithgordon]

I live on the Woodbine fault. The limestone bedrock 5 ft below on which the piers of my house rest always rumbles.

[brainstem]

What I find interesting is that Illinois experienced an earthquake recently that was not in the New Madrid fault zone. It was far north and east of it. If you draw a line between that quake and these Texas quakes, the New Madrid fault zone is in the middle. Look out southern Illinois. A big one might be coming soon.

[terrypierce]

Fracking, the same results in Oklahoma 2-3 years ago, multiple earthquakes in short period

[fiddlejohn]

Excellent reporting. Excellent explanation.