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USGS Calls Oklahoma Quake the Largest “Human-Induced” Earthquake on Record
- MaysonL 13y agoOne of these days there's going to be a really big one. And the lawsuits will last for decades, and fracking will go the way of nukes.
- yiedyie 13y ago“The observation that a human-induced earthquake can trigger a cascade of earthquakes, including a larger one, has important implications for reducing the seismic risk from wastewater injection” I recall reading that there are a lot of fracking sites around San Andreas Fault. Sometimes it pays to be skeptic also about this kind of technologies.
- vanattab 13y agoI wonder if the technique could some day be used to intentionally trigger smaller earthquakes to relieve pressure to prevent massive earthquakes.