{"id":26097,"date":"2018-10-23T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26097"},"modified":"2018-10-23T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:26:53","slug":"its-official-injection-of-fracking-wastewater-caused-kansas-biggest-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/10\/23\/its-official-injection-of-fracking-wastewater-caused-kansas-biggest-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas\u2019 Biggest Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EcoWatch <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/fracking-wastewater-kansas-earthquake-2045480679.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas\u2019 Biggest Earthquake<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas\u2014a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014\u2014has been officially linked to wastewater injection into deep underground wells, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should be no surprise to &#8220;experts&#8221;.  Back in the late 1960s, I followed this story  in the news.  Maybe it caught my attention because I was in the Army, although in Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia, not Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wstword <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/news\/denver-earthquakes-40-years-ago-were-caused-by-uncle-sam-not-mother-nature-5833488\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver earthquakes 40 years ago were caused by Uncle Sam, not Mother Nature<\/a> published in Auguast 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDespite yesterday&#8217;s earthquake that hit the Trinidad region, &#8220;Colorado is considered a region of minor earthquake activity,&#8221; according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But forty years ago, a series of quakes rocked the Denver area &#8212; quakes caused not by Mother Nature, but by Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n<p>How? The Army was dumping dangerous chemicals into a deep injection well out at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if modern day &#8220;experts&#8221; are too young to remember this or have not been taught about this in their engineering schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EcoWatch has the article It&#8217;s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas\u2019 Biggest Earthquake, The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas\u2014a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014\u2014has been officially linked to wastewater injection into deep underground wells, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26099,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097\/revisions\/26099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}