[Via Dave Winer’s linkblog feed]
Oil Wells Linked to Oklahoma’s Stunning Increase In Earthquakes.
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Amazing. Will they have a major earthquake soon? Hard to say but it indicates the worrisome aspects of fracking, over and above environmental spills.
Maybe major earthquakes will get people to stop buring so many fossil fuels.
My skeptical attenae are up on this one. Waste water “lubricating” faults? On a scale significant enough to produce measurable earthquakes? I tried to follow a trail of links to an actual peer reviewed article supporting this thesis, but was unable to locate it. Do you have a better source than CNN?
The USGS has an Article. Apparently they have known for sometime that water causes earthquakes. Science had a review article.
It us a well known phenomenon.