Silhouette
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Everything you posted is utter horseshit. Fishing is great in the Gulf of Mexico. Tourism by fisherman is one of the biggest industries in Florida. Fracking will never set off more than minor tremors. In fact, it would be a good thing if it did because the stress in faults like the San Andreas would be relieved gradually instead of in one fell swoop. A thousand earthquakes registering 2.5 on the Richter scale is far preferable to one big one registering 8.5.
Everything you posted is utter horseshit. Fishing sucks in the Gulf of Mexico compared to it's pre-smudge glory days. Florida gets fish stocks outside the Gulf. I'm talking about those states chained to waters in the "dead-zone" of the Gulf proper...worse as you approach Texas. There is no way of knowing, for our greatest geological scientists still don't fully understand latent faults and how their rupture affects larger ones, whether or not the documented exponential increase in earthquakes caused by fracking will unleash "the big one" on the New Madrid.
Your rendition of "a thousand earthquakes registering 2.5 on the Richter being better than on 8.5 is so abysmally ignorant that it is proof of exactly why we must not listen to the schills of the petrolium industry pretending to have scientific backup for their greedy aspirations.. Take a geology 101 course and get back to me Einstein..
If you had a fault section where there was a tense lockup along its length and many other minor lockups in surface tension between rocks, a "thousand 2.5" releases of the more minor tensions [that are ACTUALLY RELIEVING some of the potential energy in the larger lockup] would cause the exact opposite scenario of what you just said. It would cause that potential energy to concentrate in the large lockup and cause it to rupture more quickly....and violently...
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