More earthquakes have hit in central Nebraska. The U.S. Geological Survey say that an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 hit around 4:48 p.m. Monday. With this most recent earthquake, there have now been a total of six earthquakes that hit that area in less than a week! Although earthquakes are not a new thing here in Nebraska, there have only been 46 since 1975.
Six earthquakes have shaken Nebraska already this week. That is really a lot knowing that just 46 hit the state since 1975. The quakes are most likely due to fault lines that run a few miles underneath the ground. But it’s certainly not a fault that officials can map at the surface because if you know anything about this area of Nebraska, you know that there aren’t any rock-out crops and mostly when seismologists map faults they map them in bedrock. READ MORE
“only 46 since 1975″…..but since the 80’s Class II Injection / Fraking wells have developed and the State of NE produced hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. Eventually earthquakes moving from the west will push their way through the crust, at the areas of least resistance…crust damaged fraking wells.