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Originally Posted by baddog
Everyone knows that fracking causes Continental plates to shift. </sarcasm>
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fr...firm-1.1209066
"Fracking causes earthquakes, studies confirm"
'The U.S. Geological Survey is set to release its findings Wednesday that a "remarkable" increase of quakes in the U.S. midcontinent since 2001 is "almost certainly" the result of oil and gas production. However, the lead author of the report, Bill Ellsworth, emphasized in an interview with the U.S. televison network CNBC that the earthquakes aren't caused by the fracking process itself that is used to extract the gas. Rather, earthquakes have been linked to the injection of wastewater produced during fracking back into the ground in order to dispose of it'
I guess you know better than The US Geological Survey Peeps, eh, Beard Face?
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Originally Posted by Sly
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Is the number of felt earthquakes occurring northeast of Oklahoma City, unusual? Somewhat, but at this point there is no reason to be alarmed. Small earthquakes such as these can occur anywhere in the world. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that there are as many as 3,000 of these small earthquakes occurring every day. Earthquake swarms like this can go on for many months, and usually do not lead up to a major earthquake.
Do we know what is causing the earthquakes? No, without further study it is not possible to determine what is causing the earthquakes. The USGS and the Oklahoma Geological Survey are working together to conduct a limited field study to better measure any future earthquakes that could occur in eastern Oklahoma County.
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Geologists aren't quite sure, but Mark Prince is. I'm siding with Mark Prince on this one!
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/178449...akes-oklahoma#
'The US Geological Survey found that from 1975 to 2008, central Oklahoma experienced one to three 3.0-magnitude earthquakes a year, compared with an
average of 40 per year from 2009 to 2013.'
and since it's 100 since friday..