4.6 Earthquake 50 Miles South of San Antonio, Texas

Not a common place for an earthquake of this magnitude.

www.kxan.com...

Here is a link for earthquake probability and history for the area:

www.homefacts.com...

According to the history of this area, this is the largest quake recorded there so far. Lots of earthquake activity in diverse places lately!

I just saw this on my quake watch app. Said it was 3 miles deep.

This is a big quake for Texas and it was very shallow one.

What I wonder is.. is this too shallow for fracking?

tx eq today

perhaps the same thing?

is the search broken today? or are people using their brains for toilet paper?

S+F

This is a very strange phenomena in recent months, primarily in the USA -- shallow earthquakes.

Whether the cause is fracking, digging, i'll even say haarp, I'm not sure. I do know I grew up in TX and a 4.8 is pretty much unheard of during my time there.

On a slightly off topic note, Iran had a shallow earthquake: 10km deep, 4.5 in strength.

Earthquake updates are here, pay attention to the shallow depths and their locations

USGS Latest Earthquake List

There were three quakes in Texas:

quakes.globalincidentmap.com...

Since this magnitude is hardly natural in that area, I think it could have been fracking...

reply to post by HedyLamarr


It is very possible that it could be fracking, but here is what puzzles me about the natural gas drilling: I live on the edge of a large oil field. Every night I see fires from the petroleum storage units as they burn off the VOCs (natural gas) from the crude oil, because the price of natural gas is too low to warrant capturing the gas.

So, we have plenty of natural gas here but the oil companies aren't interested in collecting it. Yet in other places they are using dangerous and harmful fracking methods to get said-same gas.

Anyway, don't know if it's fracking or if the earth is shaking due to quakes farther south (Mexico and Guatemala).

reply to post by FissionSurplus


Interesting comment. I have no idea what's going on, but very close to the quakes, there is a oil well or a place were they are fracking:

reply to post by FissionSurplus


try the search feature. Or just look at headlines in this SAME forum as this is......there's already a thread on this same topic from 2 hours before yours.
www.abovetopsecret.com...

I know there is a lot of fracking going on in that area..

Very strange indeed.

Earthquake happened in Texas today because of baseball World Series Texas Rangers lost Game 1 last night.

S&F!

I posted a thread HERE on what may be causing unusual and rare earthquakes, such is this one, VA and CO.

I'm only about 200 miles from the epicenter, born and raised in Texas and we NEVER have earthquakes. NO fault lines? hmmmmmm......