Underground booms in Wisconsin

[Abhaya]

Not buying into anything but found this as an interesting connection to all predictions for today.

http://www.infowars.com/mysterious-booms-spread-to-second-town/

Wow even CNN has coverage
http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2012/03/20/wi-mysterious-noises-heard.wluk

[Peace of Mind]

saw this in the morning news....

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57402258/wis-town-seeks-origin-of-loud-strange-sounds/?tag=morningFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule

Peace

[EnergyGardener]

That's getting a little too close to home.

[muxfolder]

Are they blowing up underground bases again? :p

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

Could it be as simple as Fracking? Or is fracking a decoy?

Could fracking be the true culprit around the globe & agent provocateur's within certain circles are diverting folk by playing other more colourful cards? Or Vise Versa?



Curiosities: What formed the sand deposits now being mined in Wisconsin for 'fracking'?
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/ask/curiosities/curiosities-what-formed-the-sand-deposits-now-being-mined-in/article_98550e36-5f1d-11e1-b8c0-001871e3ce6c.html

Wisconsin DNR Rejects New Restrictions on Mining Frack Sand
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2012/03/07/wisconsin-dnr-rejects-new-restrictions-mining-frack-sand

Wisconsin Legislation May Strip Towns of Authority to Stop Fracking
http://www.alternet.org/news/154545/wisconsin_legislation_may_strip_towns_of_authority_to_stop_fracking

Frac sand mining boom met with protest in Winona, Minn.
https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=40&article_id=231816&CFID=492460209&CFTOKEN=43223148

U.S. Senate Candidates React To Gas Price 'Crisis'
http://www.channel3000.com/news/30613821/detail.html

[ghostrider]

morning express withe Robin meade just ran a story of the booms in wisconsin were small earthquakes. that means the news media doesn't know what they are, and trying to get the masses looking away and not to pay attention to earth changes.

[toad]

morning express withe Robin meade just ran a story of the booms in wisconsin were small earthquakes. that means the news media doesn't know what they are, and trying to get the masses looking away and not to pay attention to earth changes.

I believe they have already stated there was lil to no seismic activity associated with them, from what I hear, I know someone rather close to there, they are incredibly loud, like a 12g going off outside your window.

[Hervé]

From the USGS List of Recent Earthquakes In Central US: (http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html)



https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p7LFjR_DwHuENqo0qRmaRsqiSItfo8oBcsVEMQVSwGZnXsPvoNKpkhEUzh4dguQAg-TYVFGcmIsctz9w-Qct0xg/Image-2012-3-23-12h59mn30.jpg?psid=1



It seems that their installation of seismometer stations in the area is paying off.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

From the USGS List of Recent Earthquakes In Central US: (http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html)



https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p7LFjR_DwHuENqo0qRmaRsqiSItfo8oBcsVEMQVSwGZnXsPvoNKpkhEUzh4dguQAg-TYVFGcmIsctz9w-Qct0xg/Image-2012-3-23-12h59mn30.jpg?psid=1



It seems that their installation of seismometer stations in the area is paying off.


Having lived in earthquake country (Various places in California, including the S.F. Bay Area) for over 45 years, I find it difficult to believe that quakes of that small magnitude are creating this. I realize that there are different kinds of quakes and depending on their depth the geology of the area, etc. they will be felt differently. However, I'm still finding this difficult to believe!

On the other hand I've seen areas around fracking registering these type of small quakes and to me it makes more sense that the procedure of fracking would cause this noise.

If it is truly from earthquakes, then I would think that magma is seriously on the move in that area and IMHO that could mean almost anything is possible. This is all from a layman's observation and experience with many earthquakes up to 6.0.

[EnergyGardener]

I don't live that far away from the town/s reporting this. I do not hear any sounds, but more important, there has not been any notice of ground movement.

[Hervé]

From the USGS List of Recent Earthquakes In Central US: (http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html)



https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p7LFjR_DwHuENqo0qRmaRsqiSItfo8oBcsVEMQVSwGZnXsPvoNKpkhEUzh4dguQAg-TYVFGcmIsctz9w-Qct0xg/Image-2012-3-23-12h59mn30.jpg?psid=1




It seems that their installation of seismometer stations in the area is paying off.



Having lived in earthquake country (Various places in California, including the S.F. Bay Area) for over 45 years, I find it difficult to believe that quakes of that small magnitude are creating this. I realize that there are different kinds of quakes and depending on their depth the geology of the area, etc. they will be felt differently. However, I'm still finding this difficult to believe!

On the other hand I've seen areas around fracking registering these type of small quakes and to me it makes more sense that the procedure of fracking would cause this noise.

If it is truly from earthquakes, then I would think that magma is seriously on the move in that area and IMHO that could mean almost anything is possible. This is all from a layman's observation and experience with many earthquakes up to 6.0.

I don't see anywhere in my above post anything pertaining to believe anything, even remotely.

I was just providing data that indeed an earthquake was spotted in the area.

Equally, I have no idea where that magma emplacement info came from but it certainly doesn't hold any water of truth for that area.

Hence two main possibilities remain:

1) Fracking, which is the hydraulic fracturing of rocks and therefore generates micro to macro seismicity (see Bryn's post above), or

2) Tectonic (re-)adjustments.

There is the third possibility of a combination of both.

On the side of tectonic (re-)adjustments in the middle of nowhere, away from tectonically active margins, there is this one in upper Michigan (http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=522312):


http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/12884earthcrack.jpg
Doug Salewsky and Eileen Heider look at a 200-yard long crack in the earth Tuesday on Birch Creek Road in Menominee County. The crack is 2 to 3 feet wide in some places. The trees in back are tipping about 30 degrees and the earth around the crack has risen about 5 feet with other little fissures spreading out from center.
EagleHerald/Rick Gebhard