Monday, June 15, 2009



CLEBURNE, Texas – The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last. There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling — which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas — causing the quakes?

... not drilling ...
... but pumping water under a fault ...
... is a long time known german developed system ...
... to "stimulate" small earthquakes ment to avoid big ones ...


# posted by intcoex : 1:30 AM




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