Large Earthquake Hits Worlds Largest Oil Storage Facility, Cushing OK. No Word On Condition Of Tanks.

Cushing, OK is the worlds largest oil storage facilty, with miles and miles of tanks with floating lids. This earthquake hit right there, and these tanks are full. 63 million barrels of oil, with floathing lids, sloshing around.

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“After the shale boom added millions of additional barrels to Cushing, its tanks swelled to a peak hoard of more than 60 million barrels this spring. That’s about as much petroleum as the U.S. uses in three days, and it’s more than six times the quantity that triggered security concerns after Sept. 11. The Safety Alliance has remained vigilant, even staging tornado simulations after a few close calls.

Now the massive oil stockpile faces an emerging threat: earthquakes. In the past month, a flurry of quakes have hit within a few miles of Cushing, rattling the town and its massive tanks. According to the Oklahoma Geological Survey, more than a dozen quakes have registered 3.0 or higher on the Richter scale within a few miles of Cushing since mid-September. The biggest, registering at 4.5, hit about three miles away on Oct. 10.

This is all part of the disturbing rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma, which has corresponded to increased fracking activity and oil production in the state. Since 2008, Oklahoma has gone from averaging fewer than two earthquakes per year that measure at least 3.0 in magnitude to surpassing California as the most seismically active state in the continental U.S. “

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/oklahoma-earthquakes-are-a-national-security-threat

“This is an old article but my friends are saying helicopters are flying over the Pawnee Area and I know the rifineries in Ponka City and the sounding area help feed the Cushing storage facility through a network of pipelines. I can’t help but think they are looking for or already know about leaks caused by the earthquake?????”

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