What's Shakin'?

What was that Mark posted last night?

Something about feeling earthquakes.

There it is.

Yep, USGS says five point one, near Midland.

Not exactly earthquake country

But hey, they happen everywhere.

Where the heck is Ackerman?

Ahhhh, smack dab in the middle of the oil fields

just like every other place in Texas.

They'll blame this one on fracking...

No, they're saying waste water disposal, maybe.

They're pumping it down into the ground now.

No one wanted more evaporation ponds.

You know, maybe that guy in California was right -

The rock shop owner, yeah,

where I got that cool chunk of selenite.

“We've had so much rain

and now we've got a new rash of quakes.

All that water seeps down to the faults

and lubricates the plates and they slip.”

It didn't sound all that crazy.

Maybe he shoulda' run for Congress.

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A "transcript" of my thoughts this morning about a little earthquake close to some good friends who moved a bit south last year. Maybe some food for thought.

For those interested in checking the reports, etc. the name of the town is Ackerly, not Ackerman, but I hadn't had my second cup of coffee when those thoughts were running through my head, so...

Oh - and another entry for the Unhinged - I mean - Unwound - no, Unfiltered, yeah, that's it - Challenge: