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Post by kingedmund on May 22, 2023 16:10:27 GMT
We pay a lot for land here, a acre of land on which houses may be built might cost £300,000 in the north of England or £1 million in the south. Farmland is much cheaper, typically £10,000 per acre, I believe. Housing estates with ten houses per acre might cost £30,000 for the land alone and so builders tend to build houses close together. I bought 5 acres to build on for $85,000 last year but it’s in the suburbs so I’m not surprised. |
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Post by kingedmund on May 22, 2023 16:15:43 GMT
The largest fracking earthquake in the UK occurred in April 2011. It had a magnitude of 2.3 and was felt locally. As a result, the government has abandoned fracking probably because of its danger to local housing and the enormous damage it would make to the government's image. I believe Oklahoma has also suffered earthquakes from wastewater disposal. Wastewater disposal is a process in which fluid waste from oil and gas production is injected deep underground far below ground water or drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, Oklahoma suffered an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 from fracking in 2019. It is said that damage to buildings does not usually occur until the earthquake magnitude reaches somewhere above 4 or 5. They are never big enough to feel to be honest. But piers on my home have been pretty good with that. We typically have piers on our newer homes these days. My new plantation style home will have about 25 piers on it for that reason anyway plus steel framing added into it. Plus clay here in Oklahoma is everywhere so settling is worse than earthquakes at any rate. Which is why brick is so cheap here. We live in the land of red clay. There have been a few 5.0 to 5.4 but it did nothing to us really and that one was years and years ago. Just older homes had issues. |
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Post by kingedmund on May 22, 2023 16:17:42 GMT
There was a 5.8 magnitude quake south of Wichita, KS that cracked peoples' foundations and basements all the way up here in 2016. Any quake in southern KS or OK would be considered fracking related. It doesn’t help the fault lines that exist already. Earthquake happened well before fracking. Just in less. … way less frequency. Can’t wait for that Madrid fault that caused a country wide earthquake back in the early 1800s. Made Mississippi River flow backwards for a time. I think they say that if it were to happen today due to population movement the entire middle of the country would be destroyed from Tennessee, Texas, to Eastern Colorado, and Nebraska. Creepy thought |
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 6, 2023 23:46:12 GMT
Quiet again. Everybody off outdoors enjoying the hard shadows? Being in tents?
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Post by Moose on Jun 7, 2023 0:23:23 GMT
I haven't tried the tent yet. Been having a very anxious few days though I dunno quite why.
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Post by Kye on Jun 7, 2023 9:12:55 GMT
Maybe because you're thinking about the doctor's visit looming?
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Post by JoeP on Jun 7, 2023 9:12:59 GMT
I haven't tried the tent yet. Been having a very anxious few days though I dunno quite why. So ... intense not in tents? |
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Post by Kye on Jun 7, 2023 11:30:21 GMT
Joe... no. Just no.
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Post by Moose on Jun 8, 2023 6:13:25 GMT
I was anxious the day before I learned about the appointment. It did not help, however.
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Post by kingedmund on Jun 8, 2023 13:26:41 GMT
Maybe because you're thinking about the doctor's visit looming? I definitely have a few of those. Lol. Just busy getting ready for the grand opening of the new store. Tents …..thank you … no thank you. I don’t do camping Ike that. |
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 8, 2023 14:10:08 GMT
Joe...YES! Go there. It was placed just so somebody like you could avail themselves of the malingering dad joke. |
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Post by JoeP on Jun 8, 2023 17:11:36 GMT
Exactly. The Goat started it.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 8, 2023 17:12:21 GMT
Hope your anxiety is receding a bit Moosie?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 8, 2023 17:46:14 GMT
Exactly. The Goat started it. I did, I did! I admit it. And Joe finished it. Kudos! It could have used a rimshot, though... |
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Post by tangent on Jun 8, 2023 20:13:34 GMT
Hope your anxiety is receding a bit Moosie? Not any more with that joke  |
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