Comments on: Magnitude 3.1 Earthquake Reported Monday Near Flomaton; Second Quake In A Week

By: A.Wilton Thompson

A.Wilton Thompson — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:26:40 +0000

My dog Elvis got All Shook up and He felt the earth move under his feet in Mosquito Flats the other day.

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:02:39 +0000

You don’t want to drill for oil? Okay then don’t drive a motor vehicle.

By: mic hall

mic hall — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:24:18 +0000

Looking farther back in the USGS data shows small clumps of earthquakes that occur about every 3 or 4 years. The pattern has been moving from the NW to SE diagonally toward Florida.

If we have several more earthquakes or more intense ones then maybe we can look to the oil industry but for now the current events match up with historical record.

By: Huntersmom

Huntersmom — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:31:28 +0000

And they keep on drilling for oil. The one north of Jay by the big cotton top water tower, is light up like it’s own little town at night.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:04:50 +0000

I find it mostly comical and a bit troubling reading the misinformed statements regarding drilling and these earthquakes. Texas and Louisiana are arguably the two most drilled Southeastern states yet they also contain the lowest hazard from earthquakes (with the exception of the Florida peninsula south of I-10. Similarly, North Dakota and Minnesota are heavy drilling states with virtually the same earthquake hazard as South Florida and South Texas. A little research rather than repeating what may be heard during the evening news or coffee shop talk goes a long way towards self education.

By: lone chief

lone chief — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:48:48 +0000

I’m impressed and surprised so many folks felt these baby quakes. I’m usually sensitive to very low frequency. guess I’m getting old. we do get these little quakes around here, usually just a little ways in the gulf or P’cola bay. A 6.0 and above will get your attention, above a 7.0 is just plumb scary!! Y’all hang on up there.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:52:17 +0000

REGARDING:
” lack of water for agriculture.”

Century, Florida gets 65 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 39 inches of rain per year or about 804 million gallons per square mile, 28.9 billion gallons per township.

At its peak production, Jay oil field produced about 35 million barrels of petroleum per year. That’s in 42 gallon barrels or 1.47 billion gallons. If you took all that petroleum and replaced it with rainfall from a single township (which they did not do), you would drop it to just 27.4 billion gallons of rainwater for agriculture…about a 5% reduction.

Oil production would never suck up all the available water or even a noticeable fraction. For comparison, consider the Brewton mill with production of about 490,000 tons of paper per year and more than 4,500 gallons of water per ton yields at least 2.2 billion gallons of water per year — way more water demand.

(I also assume the minor quakes are related to petroleum withdrawal but that doesn’t imply more and worse.)

David for water

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:39:25 +0000

Let’s keep letting the rich oil companies dig the ground out from underneath us so we all sink into the ground while they get to line their pockets!

By: Lawrence Griffin

Lawrence Griffin — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:37:42 +0000

hay Sage2….. I pray that you are right

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:18:54 +0000

Hi all, My Dad currently works the Panhandle including Flomaton area, He has told me the amount water and other crap they use to push the oil or gas fields to profits similar to fracking it really concerns him just for the tons of water itself being pumped down, Which intern leaves aquifers very depleted which can also cause destabilization in the empty aquifers which leads to Geo activity including earthquakes and lack of water for agriculture. This is well documented in our country and others and I really think such desperate activity in search of lower oil prices is not worth my house and water supply becoming actively ruined if this keeps up.