What is particularly troubling is that earthquakes are punctuated events of energy being transmitted to some place else. The energy is dissipated in a fashion that builds energy up somewhere else. That somewhere else might too quake or simply add the energy to its existing “quake account” (e.g. it takes 10 units to make LA quake but LA was only at a 5 units when it received the Ohio quakes 0.5 units of energy. So although LA didn’t have an earthquake the energy level of its sub strata did go from 5 to 5.5 in response to, say, Ohio’s quake.

Does that mean that LA’s is simply going to keep having the same size earthquakes its had in the past only a smidge sooner? Good question. Consider that LA’s quakes are a result of the pressure differential between two plates – one from the east and one from the west rubbing against each other and when that pressure differential reaches 10 units you have a quake. Does the addition of 0.5 units transmitted from the east northeast make up part of the 10 units on a one for one basis? I don’t think say. Continuing with our oversimplification it would seem that 10 units of quake energy expressing itself in left to right motion would be augmented by the addition of 0.5 units of quake energy being subsequently released in a east northeast to west southwest fashion. So not only is LA going to shake in its typical left to right pattern (10 units) but now its going to also release (0.5 units) of energy that is slightly skewed from the typical left right pattern. Does this mean that LA’s typical 7.4 quake will become a 11.8 quake on the Richter scale? Don’t know. I guess it may depend on how much “spin” has actually been added by fracking taking place in the interior of one of the plates. An interior, I might add that doesn’t necessarily see a whole lot of quake energy. It could be the case that the two plates are so uniquely rubbed together under LA that there may be nearly nothing stopping the slightest off angle of pressure from amplifying exponentially. For instance, there is little next to nothing impeding any small amount of energy from causing movement in a northish/southish fasion once the left\right motion gets things moving.

Experiment: take to plates of glass and lay them on top of each other on a table. Not on the top or bottom, but on the left and right sides border the two plates of glass with a wafer of balsam wood that breaks on being exposed to pressures over 0.4 units. Slide the two plates of glass together in what could be called the "normal" top to bottom fashion - that is your typical LA earthquake. Now. slide the two plates of glass together but introduce pressure at angle to the usual top to bottom motion so that the balsam wood on the left and right borders of the two plates of glass breaks. What do you observe about the motion of the plates now that lateral movement has become frictionless? Yeppers, LA has FUBR.

…and that concludes today’s brain droppings.

I voted yes because it's also been a problem in Arkansas. Last year towns in the area of fracking (N.E. AR) were experiencing several earthquakes a week and apparently we are now experiencing the same thing as OH, suspected caused by fracking, which is now halted temporarily. We;ll see. Personally I have no doubts it's due to fracking. All the evidence points directly at fracking as the direct cause. No problems till the fracking started.

As for those birds, once again in the town of Beebe, AR, I find their explanations a little strange, like a coverup. I think it has a lot to do with environmental issues and not fireworks. Afterall, people have been setting off fireworks for many years and this has never happened until recently. And why here? Interestingly, it's in the same area as the fracking and earthquakes. Any connections? Makes me wonder.

Of course it did. Fracking in NE Ohio, northern Pennsylvania and western New York State makes it certain that we will see more and more earthquakes of increasing severity unless this type of extraction technique is stopped immediately!