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Title: Rare Earthquake Warning
Post by: Gaspar on May 05, 2014, 03:29:55 PM
http://www.livescience.com/45361-oklahoma-earthquake-risk-rising.html

Geologists don't know when or where the state's next big earthquake will strike, nor will they put a number on the increased risk. "We haven't seen this before in Oklahoma, so we had some concerns about putting a specific number on the chances of it," Robert Williams, a research geophysicist with the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program in Golden, Colorado, told Live Science. "But we know from other cases around the world that if you have an increasing number of small earthquakes, the chances of a larger one will go up."

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Title: Re: Rare Earthquake Warning
Post by: patric on May 05, 2014, 03:59:56 PM
Warning from USGS:

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3880&from=rss_home#.U2fyJYFdV3V
Title: Re: Rare Earthquake Warning
Post by: Townsend on May 05, 2014, 04:22:46 PM
Looks like we may want to skip spending $160 million on the OK capitol building.
Title: Re: Rare Earthquake Warning
Post by: Conan71 on May 05, 2014, 06:17:46 PM
Quote from: Townsend on May 05, 2014, 04:22:46 PM
Looks like we may want to skip spending $160 million on the OK capitol building.

Might be a sinkhole by the time they get started on it.
Title: Re: Rare Earthquake Warning
Post by: sgrizzle on May 05, 2014, 08:38:21 PM
Quote from: Townsend on May 05, 2014, 04:22:46 PM
Looks like we may want to skip spending $160 million on the OK capitol building.

Rubber dome