{"id":23601,"date":"2013-01-29T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:58:54","slug":"another-earthquake-strikes-timpson-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/29\/another-earthquake-strikes-timpson-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Earthquake Strikes Timpson, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=212975272942579909233.0004d420162f6452e5c23&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=31.87056,-94.449463&amp;spn=0.816376,1.444702&amp;z=9&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=212975272942579909233.0004d420162f6452e5c23&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=31.87056,-94.449463&amp;spn=0.816376,1.444702&amp;z=9&amp;source=embed\">East Texas Earthquake <\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>A small\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/usc000exeh#summary\">2.8 earthquake<\/a> struck near Timpson, Texas, very early this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It&#8217;s the second earthquake in less than a week in the area. On January 25, a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/25\/4-1-earthquake-hits-east-texas-reports-of-minor-damage\/\">4.1 quake<\/a> struck some two miles Northwest of town, around the same time of the morning. That quake reportedly\u00a0caused one chimney to topple over. A smaller earthquake like the one this morning is unlikely to cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>You can see where both quakes occurred in the interactive map above.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are linking a growing number of quakes in Texas to wells used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling, including earthquakes in East Texas and around<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/06\/how-fracking-disposal-wells-are-causing-earthquakes-in-dallas-fort-worth\/\"> Dallas-Fort Worth<\/a>. There was even a 4.8 quake in Timpson last May that caused some<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kltv.com\/story\/18467573\/earthquake-confirmed-in-east-texas\"> damage and one reported injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, we are actually linking them [earthquakes] to injection wells that are located close to where the earthquakes are in the Timpson area,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geology.sfasu.edu\/brown.html\">Dr. Wesley Brown<\/a>, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at Stephen F. Austin University told the regional newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lightandchampion.com\/article\/002986-earthquake-shudders-timpson-area-once-again\">Light and Champion\u00a0<\/a>in December. \u201cWe have one a little bit to the north, and [the wells] are north and south of each other,\u201d said Dr. Brown. \u201cThe volume, especially for the one in the south, is up over 200,000 barrels of water per month.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>You can read more about the link between fracking disposal wells and earthquakes at our topic page: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/earthquake\/\">How Oil and Gas Disposal Wells Can Cause Earthquakes<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View East Texas Earthquake in a larger map A small\u00a02.8 earthquake struck near Timpson, Texas, very early this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It&#8217;s the second earthquake in less than a week in the area. On January 25, a 4.1 quake struck some two miles Northwest of town, around the same time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[211,15,104],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601"}],"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=23601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}