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Huge Spike In Earthquakes In Oklahoma
via The Nation
A dramatic uptick in earthquakes has been shaking central Oklahoma this year, continuing a recent trend of unusually high earthquake activity in the state and leading scientists to speculate about a possible link to oil and gas production there.
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 forty per year from 2009 to 2013. And it looks like that number is going to get bigger. It’s only February, and the state has already logged more than twenty-five quakes of 3.0-magnitude or larger this year, and more than 150 total quakes in the past week alone.
No one is disputing that such a dramatic spike is unusual. The question is why it’s happening now, and science suggests that the fracking boom may be, at least in part, to blame.
I would not be surprised. It has been connected to earthquakes before. Imagine if the gas and oil industry gets their way and fracks everywhere it wants to. better get use to quakes I guess. If somebody could just scientifically and undubtedly connect the two, I think,it would spell the end of the fracking industry and the gas oil boom.
