St. Louis, MO (KSDK) – NewsChannel 5 will participate in a first of its kind EAS test next Wednesday afternoon.
The test, conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), includes all broadcasters across the country. All radio and TV broadcast stations, cable operators, and satellite radio and TV will participate.
The Emergency Alert System test is scheduled to occur Wednesday, November 9 at 1 p.m. Central Time. It will last only 60 seconds.
This first national EAS test will serve as a benchmark for measuring effectiveness of the EAS system and for future improvements going forward.
FEMA and the FCC intend to conduct national EAS tests on an annual basis, although not always on November 9.
Today, November 5 2011 , approx 230am CDT — there was a 4.7 magnitude earthquake in central Oklahoma.
As it turns out, yet once again, we see the epicenter VERY close to what looks like some kind of drilling site.
This is NOT the first time we have seen earthquakes of a noticeable size caused by this man made drilling activity — “fracking” or FRAC drilling is the injection of water into the ground to release natural gas from deep layers of the earth.
I have covered this topic before: read all about the findings here–
This makes MOST of the recent large quakes in the USA man made events!
All in 2011 !!
Texas 4.7 = man made due to fracking
Oklahoma 4.7 = man made due to fracking
Arkansas 4.7 = man made due to fracking
Colorado 5.3 = man made due to fracking
New Mexico 3.8 = man made due to fracking
Im sure there are more.. but these are the ones I documented by going on to google earth.. looking up the epicenters.. and seeing fracking wells / oil wells within a mile or less from the epicenter.
link to the post on the plumes which appeared to the east and south of this area a few days ago— I called for the area surrounding the plumes to get a 5.0 or greater within 1-3 weeks.. now we see a 4.7 just to the west of the pluming area.
All the known volcano webcams of the world (Italy, Russia, Iceland, South/Central America, Spain and several other locations) : http://bigthink.com/ideas/26619