The plate boundaries keep shifting, sending waves of energy through our planet but there are little reminders in off boundary sites, as well. The Central Va. Earthquake Zone got that reminder Wednesday night with a good little shake centered along the Powhatan/Amelia county border. For those of us in Louisa that felt it, there was no sound; something we've come to expect with our hundreds of after shocks. It felt like a quake, shaking for several seconds, but the lack of sound left me wondering, what the... Just farther away than the many in my neighborhood.
Oklahoma, formerly quite quiet, continues to experience quakes in the 2 - 4 Richter range every day. That started soon after fracking began in earnest in the area, a connection, no doubt, denied by the oil giants blowing up the earth to release the hydrocarbons we Americans crave but don't want to pay the the true cost of. The earth just does what it does, we blow it up, it shifts to adjust, action/reaction; a clever guy named Newton pointed that out several hundred years ago. We know it but don't want to "believe" it if we don't like the reaction(Carbon dioxide and global warming??). Want jobs and cheap oil, better be willing to hang on Oklahoma!!
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