Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
Fracking is perfectly safe. We’re all going to hell anyway so what’s a little fracking to speed along the process.
Ten earthquakes, three of them greater than a 3.0 in magnitude, rocked the DFW area on Tuesday afternoon and into early Wednesday, knocking items off of walls, causing cracks to appear in ceilings and generally rattling nerves across the region.
What’s unusual about this? North Texas has not had earthquakes like this since the 1970’s.
#2 Unusual: Fracking is happening there.
But, fracking companies assure us, is not why Dallas is having earthquakes.
Geophysicists said that this many earthquakes indicates stress in the Earth’s crust that needs to be relieved.
Yep, that’s all. Ten times a day.
