A long time ago, when there was little, “Out West”, there was a massive earthquake, right in the middle of the Midwest of the United States. There have been echos of this crash for many years, but there have been more recent signs there is renewed activity in the earth below this active area.
What’s really scary is that we have built so many things on top of the area, including hundreds of major pipelines, “DAPL”, is the latest example of a proposed mainline almost connected on the north end in North Dakota. It has already passed under the mighty Mississippi river and it’s southern most end is directly in the predicted most violent area of a repeated earthquake.
If and when this one goes hot it will kill tens of thousands of people just because they live and work in this area … my question is why do we continue to tempt fate by punching in wells and fracking in this area, only explanation I can see is uncontrolled greed …
When they run the DAPL under the rivers, they claim down 90 feet under the river it is safe, however the forces lurking here are much lower and when released they will push up to the surface and destroy that measly little tube like a twig. This giant has been slipping and getting more tense for many years. The geologists say the time between 6.5 level earthquakes is about 75 years +/- 15 years … gauging from the info on this sign we are about 32 years over the 75+15 years, and the longer we wait for it the bigger it will become … it WILL probably occur by 2040, because at that time it will be at the 90-100% tension and the interval will be any minute … if I live that long I’ll be 94 years old and I would go out with a bang I guess … although living as far up into Iowa as we do, we may just rattle some and crack our foundation, loose a few trees and our driveway. However it may build to that nasty 7 level and the bottom ½ of Illinois could be destroyed.
That destruction would certainly snap the DAPL and hundreds of other coming and going lines full of gasoline, diesel fuel, unprocessed shale oil and other levels of oil, natural gas, and many other nasties … Iowa just had a pipeline leak and spill a few weeks ago of 138,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
The earthquake would occur in a huge boil of the ground, fissures opening up giant sinkholes sand blasting up into huge mounds that would knock down buildings, reroute rivers … the big, beautiful miracle stainless steel arch in St. Louis, that withstands awesome wind storms will probably fall over because it will be pushed up loose of it’s foundations and as in most damage in earthquakes, shear weight of objects cause gravity to damage and destroy them and anybody or thing in their way.
So, here we are pricking away at this monster, drilling down 90 foot and across the river and back up the other side of the river, running many wells in that part of Illinois, processing the raw oil into gasoline and other products, most of them flammable or nasty airborne … what do you think this mass of spills caused by broken and severed pipelines and storage tanks holding 10’s of thousands of gallons of product will do? The massive movements of rock plates will produce instantaneous heat that will easily ignite every flammable river of products that will seek to run downhill …
I say that the view from the International Space Station will be awesome …. dark gray to black smoke plumes billowing up in the day time, river of fires at night. Probably too hot to do anything to stop the flow until it reaches the Gulf. Those not in the heart area will spend hours and days trying to glean any value from the rubble if they are not poisoned by all the fumes, burnt to a crisp, etc.,.
WHY ARE WE RISKING HUGE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY BY CONTINUING THE DRILLING AND FRACKING OPERATIONS USED BY BIG OIL? AND WHO WILL RAISE THEIR HAND TO SAY THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HELL ON EARTH. EVER NOTICE THE INCREASE OF HUGE SINKHOLES?