Studies now show a clear link between the pumping of wastewater from oil production into deep wells and the damaging earthquake in central Oklahoma two years ago !
The magnitude 5.7 quake was one in a series in November 2011 in an oil-producing area near wells where wastewater had been injected into porous rock for two decades.
Last year, a well in Youngstown, Ohio, that was used to dispose of waste fluids from the production method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was shut down after scientists showed a link to a series of small earthquakes in the area.
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- Largest Oklahoma Earthquake Linked to Oil Extraction Wastewater (livescience.com)
- Wastewater Injection Blamed for Largest Human-Caused Earthquake Yet (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
- Oil Addiction, Not Fracking, Caused the 2011 Oklahoma Earthquakes (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- New Study Confirms Water Injection Caused Oklahoma Earthquake (planetsave.com)
- We told you so – Fracking causes earthquakes (redgreenandblue.org)
