{"id":23396,"date":"2013-01-22T23:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:18:20","slug":"texas-is-shaking-again-3-0-quake-strikes-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/22\/texas-is-shaking-again-3-0-quake-strikes-near-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas is Shaking Again: 3.0 Quake Strikes Near DFW Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23404\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/22\/texas-is-shaking-again-3-0-quake-strikes-near-airport\/screen-shot-2013-01-22-at-11-14-13-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23404\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23404\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-01-22 at 11.14.13 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-22-at-11.14.13-PM-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-22-at-11.14.13-PM-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-22-at-11.14.13-PM-620x525.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-22-at-11.14.13-PM.png 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Map by Google<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quake struck just East of the DFW airport.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/usb000et4i#summary\">3.0 magnitude earthquake<\/a> struck Fort Worth near the DFW airport tonight, according to the US Geological Survey. At 10:16 pm, the quake hit five miles Northwest of Irving, just off the President George Bush Turnpike. Its epicenter was ten miles below the surface.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F264321%2F;containerClass=takeaway\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, people are reporting feeling the ground shake. &#8220;Loud and everything moved &#8211; we knew instantly! Scary!&#8221; tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatalieTX2012\">@NatalieTX2012<\/a>. The quake hasn&#8217;t resulted in any reported damage. Generally, an earthquake doesn&#8217;t do much harm until it&#8217;s 4.0 magnitude or higher.<\/p>\n<p>The area where the quake occured was seismically quiet until a few years ago. That&#8217;s when the oil and gas industry <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/18\/oil-and-gas-related-earthquakes-texas-regulators-speak-no-evil\/\">began using deep underground wells<\/a> to dispose of fluids from the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or &#8220;fracking,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/12\/why-earthquakes-are-shaking-north-texas\/\">conclusive scientific evidence<\/a> that the injection of those fluids is causing quakes in the U.S., in particular in this area of Texas. A University of Texas at Austin from study\u00a0last summer found a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/06\/how-fracking-disposal-wells-are-causing-earthquakes-in-dallas-fort-worth\/\">definitive link<\/a> between earthquakes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and disposal wells, in the drilling area known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/barnett-shale\/\">Barnett Shale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And an earlier study by scientists at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and UT found <a href=\"http:\/\/smu.edu\/newsinfo\/pdf-files\/earthquake-study-10march2010.pdf\">links between\u00a0disposal\u00a0wells near the DFW airport and induced earthquakes<\/a>\u00a0for a series of quakes in 2008 and 2009.\u00a0The study specifically looked at two injection wells in the area that were built in 2008. Seven weeks later, earthquakes started. \u201cWere the DFW earthquakes natural\u00a0or triggered by activities associated\u00a0with natural gas production, most likely saltwater injection to dispose of\u00a0brines?\u201d the report asked. The study said yes, the \u201ccorrelations are consistent with an induced\u00a0or triggered source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quakes studied from that two year period were all 3.0 magnitude or below, but in the years since there have been several quakes above 3.0 in the area, going as high as 3.5. There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/neic.usgs.gov\/cgi-bin\/epic\/epic.cgi?SEARCHMETHOD=3&amp;FILEFORMAT=4&amp;SEARCHRANGE=HH&amp;CLAT=32.7828%C2%B0&amp;CLON=-96.8039&amp;CRAD=80.4672&amp;SYEAR=&amp;SMONTH=&amp;SDAY=&amp;EYEAR=&amp;EMONTH=&amp;EDAY=&amp;LMAG=&amp;UMAG=&amp;NDEP1=&amp;NDEP2=&amp;IO1=&amp;IO2=&amp;SLAT2=0.0&amp;SLAT1=0.0&amp;SLON2=0.0&amp;SLON1=0.0&amp;SUBMIT=Submit+Search\">more than fifty earthquakes<\/a> in the area since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/earthquake\/\">connection between earthquakes and fracking disposal wells<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck Fort Worth near the DFW airport tonight, according to the US Geological Survey. At 10:16 pm, the quake hit five miles Northwest of Irving, just off the President George Bush Turnpike. Its epicenter was ten miles below the surface. On Twitter, people are reporting feeling the ground shake. &#8220;Loud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":23404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[15,104,50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}