Sink holes and recent one on news.

Good Program

Agreed, excellent.

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Fracking has been shown to cause events up to 2.6, maybe higher, so given the right conditions....

And so has coal mining, what's your point?

Geologists have said the earthquakes could be the result of mining at Thoresby Colliery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548146/Welcome-Britains-EARTHQUAKE-capital-Sleepy-Nottinghamshire-town-hit-36-tremors-just-50-days-geologists-say-mining-blame.html

I didn't. Will try and watch it later on catch up.

 

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Why couldn't it ?

Fracking has been shown to cause events up to 2.6, maybe higher, so given the right conditions....

Where is the closest fracking site to High Wycombe?

It's chalk rocks in that area, I don't think they have any gas.

Also, chalk dissolves in water, we've had a lot of rain.

Google seems to be my friend ... https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/viewer.html?src=topNav

http://frack-off.org.uk/locations/

Frack off are rapidly losing support. They claim to have loads of "evidence" and "proof" - seeing one of them struggling on local news last night was hilarious - but its anecdotal or fabricated.

The photoshop job on the picture on this link is just one example:

http://frack-off.org.uk/why-does-cuadrilla-own-an-old-gas-well-near-elswick-in-lancashire/

And the real picture:

http://frackland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/cuadrilla-elswick-and-some-spectacular.html

Not only is the scale completely wrong, "The Jonah Field is a tight gas (i.e. sandstone) field developed in the early 1990s. That is before the technology to drill horizontal wells had been developed, so of course there are a lot of wells. Shale gas in the UK would look nothing like the Jonah field."

2.6 on the Richter scale.

That's no small event, and if the conditions are right i don't see how anyone could rule it out.

Maybe we should stop coal mining as well?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-25679241

Its now up to 36 tremors since that BBC news link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548146/Welcome-Britains-EARTHQUAKE-capital-Sleepy-Nottinghamshire-town-hit-36-tremors-just-50-days-geologists-say-mining-blame.html

And the massive sinkhole in the Peak District "was caused by mining in the area, according to landowner British Fluorspar."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-25559718

And does anyone remember what happened to Arkwright Town?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkwright_Town

And so has coal mining, what's your point?

What's yours ? That because it's already happening, it's ok to risk more events ?

Based on what? One incident near Blackpool?

This time in Decathlon's car park, a hole 'the size of a van'.

This time in Decathlon's car park, a hole 'the size of a van'.

Or the size of a collapsed arched cellar.

Not seen close up pictures ...... but collapsed porter brook conduit??????

I can't believe that otherwise sane and intelligent posters on here can believe that 'fracking' is responsible for the sink hole in High Wycombe.

 

There isn't any 'fracking' going on at the moment in England.

 

And 2.6 on the Richter scale is tiny.

1. There is exploratory drilling. Do you think that it stops simply at drilling?

2. 2.5 on the richter scale was enough to shake houses and

alarm quite a few residents in Mansfield two years ago.

Earthquakes in the last 50 days. Direct link below to the British Seismologist site.

I am not claiming that these have any particular cause but in view of the fragility of our relatively small island is it really sensible to create added stress to an already shifting landmass?

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/home.html