The earth moved unexpectedly, again, in formerly earthquake-free North Texas, on Friday, about a half hour before midnight.The latest North Texas earthly rocking and rolling was epicentered in the town of Mountain Creek in Ellis County.
This was a 2.8 magnitude quake, felt as far as Fort Worth, 54 miles from the epicenter.
I was in Fort Worth at a half hour before midnight on Friday and I did not feel the earth move that night.
Cleburne is still trying to figure out why that town was hit with numerous quakes this year.
Meanwhile Barnett Shale natural gas drillers continue to poke holes in North Texas, followed by squirting a watery chemical stew into the holes which causes the fracturing of a layer of the earth above the molten lava zone.
I don't see how any reasonable person could possibly think there might be a connection between fracturing a layer of the earth's crust and the earth starting to quake a bit where previously no quaking took place. The quakes must be being caused by something else. The increase in the number of obese Texans perhaps?
