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I was wondering if anyone else had made the connection to claims (or maybe that's too weak of a word) that fracking causes earthquakes.
by aeorgnoieang 9y ago
I was wondering if anyone else had made the connection to claims (or maybe that's too weak of a word) that fracking causes earthquakes.
- hutzlibu 9y agoWell according to a professor in canada, fracking definitely causes earthquakes ... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/science/fracking-earthquakes-alberta-canada.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/science/fracking-earth...
- titanix2 9y agoForage indeed can make earthquakes. An experiment was run in Alsace (France) and as far as I know it was stopped due to this kind of problems. Even if you don't understand French, you can look at pictures of this article: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2013/11/19/01016-20131119ARTFIG00311-alsace-le-village-dont-le-sol-se-souleve.php http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2013/11/19/01016-201... Another experiment was stopped in Switzerland for the same reason: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/15/swiss-geothermal-power-earthquakes-basel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/15/swiss-geotherm...