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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 03:46 PM

Work at the site of a giant sink hole in southeast Louisiana has once again come to a halt. This time the stoppage was caused by tremors in the area. This is not good news for residents near the sink hole.

Meanwhile, back at the sinkhole site, scientists have made another discovery that could keep residents out of their homes for an undetermined amount of time [See also: Sinkhole: Gas could not be controlled from well, mud and water pushed to surface -- Workers plug with cement, dismantle drilling rig].

“They got down to 90 feet and experienced gas in the water aquifer and were unable to set water well due to the pressure. We put cement, plug, and got off the site and regrouped to come up with another strategy to set a vent well,” John Boudreaux [director for the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness] explained.

They still do not know where the gas is coming from. Boudreaux said residents will not be allowed to return home until the gas is under control could mean sometime next year.

http://enenews.com/wafb-work-halted-at-g...g-thursday

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fudge

**Full Circle**

Steve Horton, research scientist with the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information, said Friday that about a week ago, one or two sharp tremors began reoccurring every day or so.

[...]

John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said some of the returning tremors are being felt.

He said a state trooper was awakened by a tremor about 2:30 a.m. Friday.
http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-m...last-month

doomed

Thanks for the update op.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 04:00 PM

Full Circle Wrote:

Steve Horton, research scientist with the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information, said Friday that about a week ago, one or two sharp tremors began reoccurring every day or so.

[...]

John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said some of the returning tremors are being felt.

He said a state trooper was awakened by a tremor about 2:30 a.m. Friday.
http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-m...last-month

Thanks for the update op.

**Full Circle**

This continuing story has my radar up. Something is up down there.....

**JF Priest** · **JF Priest** Subscriber User ID: 47416 09-18-2012 04:04 PM **Posts: 23,872**

Full Circle Wrote:

Steve Horton, research scientist with the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information, said Friday that about a week ago, one or two sharp tremors began reoccurring every day or so.

[...]

John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said some of the returning tremors are being felt.

He said a state trooper was awakened by a tremor about 2:30 a.m. Friday.
http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-m...last-month

Thanks for the update op.

**steelwidow**

This is going to BLOW SKY HIGH!!

Popcorn

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 04:39 PM

Sinkhole: Gas could not be controlled from well, mud and water pushed to surface — Workers plug with cement, dismantle drilling rig

The drilling rig is being dismantled and moved out today

http://enenews.com/sinkhole-gas-could-no...dismantled

The Bold pretty much sums it up for me. If they are so scared that they dismantle their equipment and move it out, something is DEF going on. They went to alot of trouble to get that equipment there, not to mention the cost associated with the police escorts and movement or the rigs.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 04:40 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Sinkhole: Gas could not be controlled from well, mud and water pushed to surface — Workers plug with cement, dismantle drilling rig

The drilling rig is being dismantled and moved out today

http://enenews.com/sinkhole-gas-could-no...dismantled

The Bold pretty much sums it up for me. If they are so scared that they dismantle their equipment and move it out, something is DEF going on. They went to alot of trouble to get that equipment there, not to mention the cost associated with the police escorts and movement or the rigs.

That was Sunday btw. So they are gone!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 04:43 PM

(More from Horton, who is also working with the State of Louisiana and the USGS to study the sinkhole situation..)

-“Yes, it does lead to a lot of questions and that’s really where we are”
-“We have a lot of questions as to what’s going on and not a lot answers”
-“There is something going on with these very long-period signals, and we don’t know what it is … I haven’t figured it out yet”
-Horton said there is no cause for concern from the tremors

All this but there is no cause for concern?

http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-m...last-month

**# One**

it looks like it says cornhole bayou...
Jptdknpa

**Full Circle**

Yep. Something is definitely going on. Especially when they are saying the people can't go back home...

I'd be curious to know the frequency of the tremors and how much they are increasing again.

**Helen Keller** · (This post was last modified: 09-18-2012 04:51 PM by Helen Keller.)

Full Circle Wrote:

Yep. Something is definitely going on. Especially when they are saying the people can't go back home...

I'd be curious to know the frequency of the tremors and how much they are increasing again.

Quote:What might be most vexing about the return of these sharp tremors is that they come in addition to long-period, lower frequency tremors that began Aug. 6.

the long-period tremors [...] last for three to four minutes.

Horton said he has never seen such a combination of tremors before from the same area at the same time.

http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-m...last-month

sounds...ominous Hiding

**Full Circle**

A little bit older (Sept 4th)

Three new bubbling spots have been identified and confirmed; in Bayou Corne, Grand Bayou, and Triche Canal. DEQ will pull samples to investigate and the spots will be monitored. Once lab results are available, they will be posted.

[...]

http://enenews.com/officials-3-new-bubbl...-or-photos

On the 12th:

There has been reported increased seismic activity in the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area. This activity is not the sharp tremors that were occurring prior to the development of the sinkhole; however, indications show (through monitors set up by USGS) that seismic activity has been occurring NW of the sinkhole and it’s unknown at this time what this may mean. USGS is continuously monitoring this activity.

http://enenews.com/officials-quakes-incr...g-activity

And now they are pulling out? Hiding

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101012 09-18-2012 04:54 PM

What might be most vexing about the return of these sharp tremors is that they come in addition to long-period, lower frequency tremors that began Aug. 6. These long-period tremors come from northwest of the sinkhole and not in the salt dome, Horton said.

On a seismometer, the sharp tremors are recorded as having one back-and-forth oscillation in less than a second — multiple oscillations are bunched together like scribble-scratch on a graphical depiction — and the tremors last no more than a minute.

In contrast, on a seismometer, the long-period tremors are recorded as having one back-and-forth oscillation over 20 to 40 seconds — the wave pattern is easily distinguishable on a graph — and the tremors last for three to four minutes.

Horton said he has never seen such a combination of tremors before from the same area at the same time.

“Yes, it does lead to a lot of questions and that’s really where we are,” he said. “We have a lot of questions as to what’s going on and not a lot answers.”

He said the long-period tremors could be related to something connected with natural gas, but he cautioned that was speculation.

“There is something going on with these very long-period signals, and we don’t know what it is … I haven’t figured it out yet,” Horton said.

http://theadvocate.com/home/3912952-125/...y-sinkhole