stone savage

Pardox, CO

I don’t know about you, but I’ve lived in earthquake-prone areas most of my life. I’ve never much been afraid of them, nor even thought about them much, until I was in a 6.9 earthquake - and felt every moment of it. All I’m going to say about that particular event is that I learned to not disregard earthquakes anymore.

So it is with extreme confusion and consternation that I read this article from the CNN website. The idea that a government sanctioned (thanks Nixon!) activity has the effect of causing “natural” disaster - and no one is blinking an eye!

[**Edit: The CNN article no longer exists - and I have no idea why. It also no longer exists on any of the news sites where I did my initial research for this article. You can read what it once said by visiting this site.**]

To be fair it seems the sizes of the quakes are rather insignificant - but the number caused by this little operation is in the thousands. Thousands. Am I the only person thinking “Hmmm… maybe that’s not such a good idea…"?

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