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Nobody knows what's causing the earth to belch gas and mud in OK. <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5516779/detail.html">www.channeloklahoma.com/n...etail.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The earth's crust is crumbling! <p></p><i></i>

Sure makes me wonder if this portends a biggie here in the US shortly.<br><br>No mini-quakes in Oklahoma recently.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/">folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 12/13/05 11:00 am<br></i>

This summer Texas cracked<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>CLAUDE, TX -- A massive crack in the earth opened up last week in Claude, Texas and it's creating a stir among geologists. <br><br>Geologists said Tuesday the crack was a joint in the earth's crust. They believe the opening is the result of a weak point in the joint where one spot slips away from the other. <br><br>Some parts measure more than 30-feet deep and it drained what used to be a pond. Experts say earth cracks are common but the size of the crack in Claude is not.<br><br>Created: 6/22/2005 3:55:31 PM<br>Updated: 6/29/2005 9:27:20 AM<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=39373">www.firstcoastnews.com/ne...ryid=39373</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

Yikes, glad I'm not living anywhere near that one! <p></p><i></i>

Also a 60km fissure in ethiopia...birth of a new sea?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10403251/">msnbc.msn.com/id/10403251/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

Did a mapquest to see where the two areas were in relation to each other, between Tx and Ok. <br><br>Scroll down to see map.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=KINGFISHER&1s=Ok&1z=&2pn=&2a=&2c=CLAUDE&2s=TX&2z=">www.mapquest.com/directio...&2s=TX&2z=</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

By the time my family arrived here in Arizona in 1980, there were cracks in Navajoland big enough for livestock to fall in and be lost. They'd tried fencinc them off, but as the crack widened, the fence would fall in, too. There wasn't a measurable bottom, either (of course the authorities tried to ignore these.)<br><br>The reason? Peabody Coal Company (remember John Prine's "Paradise"? Same company) uses water in slurry pipes to transport the coal they dig at Black Mesa, to the electri plants at both ends of the Grad Canyon. LOTS of water. The aquifer is dropping, and the earth opens up in big cracks, many miles away. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

Or maybe the earth is expanding.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf037/sf037p11.htm">www.science-frontiers.com...037p11.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5739/planetdammitv14qr.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

People interested in this may want to look into the rarely mentioned "New Madrid" fault line:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/docs/prepare/newMadrid.html">www.scchealth.org/docs/em...adrid.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Useless trivia: My own(official) journey down the Rabbit Hole began while looking online for information on the Yellowstone 'SuperVolcano'..A google on it led me to surfingtheapocolypse.com and I've been cursing fate every since.. <p></p><i></i>

Ever hear of the Iowa Horst? Very old geologic history, believed to have been a rift in the surface of the earth that extended from at least Lake Superior down into Oklahoma area, in which the crust broke apart, and a large "island" area started sinking down into the magma. The process eventually reversed itself, squirting up a large mountainous area that may have been as high as 30,000 feet.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/rift/mrs_locNew.htm">www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse...locNew.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/rift/mrsNew.htm">www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse...mrsNew.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Pubs/abstract/ncabs_97.htm">www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Pubs/a...abs_97.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

<br>Interview:<br> <br>John Crawford, Fire Chief, Kingfisher Fire Department, Kingfisher, Oklahoma: "It basically looked like a big mud hole with water and mud and gas coming out of the ground.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1023&category=Environment">www.earthfiles.com/news/n...nvironment</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

You can see pictures of the geysers at <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=95389">www.kotv.com/main/home/st...1&id=95389</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>and<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=4233420&nav=6uy6">www.kfor.com/Global/story...0&nav=6uy6</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel <p></p><i></i>

Oh man, those Super Volcanoes are scary!!<br><br>Whatever you do, do NOT google "super volcano," it will give you nightmares. <p></p><i></i>

from the kotv story:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>there has been no indication that gas has gotten into the city water system or into local wells.<br><br>``If people's well water starts getting contaminated or if the gas starts migrating towards town, we do have the threat of possible health issues and we would need to start trying to protect citizens,'' he said.<br><br>Loftis said there are a number of homes along the creek, but none of the gas leaks are affecting these homes.<br><br>``We've been going around telling people who live in area, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'If you start smelling gas around your home contact us immediately,'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->'' he said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>natural gas at this point would be oderless and undetectable wouldn't it? I always heard that the "gas smell" is added to the gas by the producer after it's out of the ground; in it's natural state, as I would assume this stuff must be, it should not "smell of gas" right?<br><br>so since it MUST smell of gas how could that be? why would they be pumping ready for market gas down into the earth? Did they think they were going to store it down there? Are they manufacturing scarcity?<br><br>from wikipedia:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Natural gas is tasteless and odorless.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> However, before gas is distributed to end-users, it is odorized by adding mercaptans, to assist in leak detection. Natural gas is, in itself, harmless to the human body -- unlike carbon monoxide, for instance, it is not a poison. Natural gas can kill, however if it is present in large concentrations -- and thus reduces the amount of oxygen available in the air, such that the amount of oxygen remaining won't sustain life.<br><br>Natural gas can also kill through an explosion. Natural gas is lighter than air, and so tends to dissipate. But when natural gas is contained, such as within a house or in a tent (perhaps put over a house for fumigation) gas concentrations can reach explosive proportions and trigger very powerful blasts that can level houses, and even neighborhoods. Methane has a Lower Explosive Limit of 5% in air, and an Upper Explosive Limit of 15%.<br><br>Explosive concerns with compressed natural gas used in vehicles are almost non-existant, due the the escaping nature of the gas, and the need to maintain concentrations between 5% and 15% to trigger explosions.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

If this gas is coming up from the belly of the earth, it may not just be methane (natural gas); there could also be sulfur, and many sulfuric compounds do smell (the whole rotten egg thing). And sulfur is often found in oil and natural gas due to impurities, even in a natural state. So smelling something wouldn't be out of the question.<br> <p></p><i></i>