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Fracking Caused Earthquake Boom In Ohio, Quakes In Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 18:42
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In March 2014, hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – caused 77 earthquakes in a small Ohio town that had no previous experience with seismic activity, according to a new study. One quake was large enough to be felt in neighboring areas.
Fracking in Poland Township, Ohio was halted two days after the area was hit with a magnitude-3 earthquake along a hidden fault in rock which was deep beneath a natural gas well in the Utica Shale, according to research published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
The study's authors said the magnitude-3 quake was “one the largest earthquakes ever induced by hydraulic fracturing in the United States.”
All 77 quakes occurred between March 4-12, the study found …. http://rt.com/usa
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/01/fracking-caused-earthquake-boom-in-ohio.html
