What's Up With Drilling and Earthquakes?
| Tue Jul. 24, 2012 1:44 PM PDT
There has been increasing concern about the potential role of fracking in earthquakes. The worries prompted the the US Geological Survey to look into it, and scientists found that the increase in earthquakes is likely man-made, but probably caused more by wastewater disposal than fracking itself. Now, a fabulous new piece from EnergyWire looks a little more deeply at the wastewater connection.
Reporter Mike Soraghan visited Oklahoma, where state officials are taking their time investigating the connection between the industrial processes and a magnitude-5.6 quake that damaged homes and highways along the Wilzetta Fault last... ( more at http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/whats-energy-extraction-and-earthquakes )
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